Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761304AbZCSUlf (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:41:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758331AbZCSUlM (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:41:12 -0400 Received: from systemlinux.org ([83.151.29.59]:59393 "EHLO m18s25.vlinux.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756416AbZCSUlL (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:41:11 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:09:31 +0100 From: Andre Noll To: Dan Williams Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, neilb@suse.de, maciej.sosnowski@intel.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/13] md/raid6: move raid6 data processing to raid6_pq.ko Message-ID: <20090319200931.GA10491@skl-net.de> References: <20090318191248.20375.40560.stgit@dwillia2-linux.ch.intel.com> <20090318192021.20375.69678.stgit@dwillia2-linux.ch.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090318192021.20375.69678.stgit@dwillia2-linux.ch.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1533 Lines: 47 --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 12:20, Dan Williams wrote: > Move the raid6 data processing routines into a standalone module > (raid6_pq) to prepare them to be called from async_tx wrappers and other > non-md drivers/modules. This precludes a circular dependency of raid456 > needing the async modules for data processing while those modules in > turn depend on raid456 for the base level synchronous raid6 routines. >=20 > To support this move: > 1/ The exportable definitions in raid6.h move to include/linux/raid/pq.h As raid*.h and md.h have been moved to drivers/md recently, pq.h should probably live there as well. > +#define time_before(x, y) ((x) < (y)) This macro seems to have no users (and a strange name). Regards Andre --=20 The only person who always got his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJwqZ7Wto1QDEAkw8RAodBAKCGOKkDyTMqlUcEUhvfRHnLYCBXyQCdHLrZ DUhZ+29OjnEmy/ggnTSfvwg= =jSUM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/