linux-kernel - Re: [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver

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Date:	Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:19:38 +0200
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@...ycom.com>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@...elEye.com>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 02:51:25PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 01:39:23PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > From: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@...ycom.com>
> > > 
> > > Add a Disk Storage Driver for the PS3:
> > >   - Implemented as a block device driver with a dynamic major
> > >   - Disk names (and partitions) are of the format ps3d%c(%u)
> > >   - Uses software scatter-gather with a 64 KiB bounce buffer as the hypervisor
> > >     doesn't support scatter-gather
> > 
> > Looks good to me.  Only nitpicks are:
> > 
> >  - ps3disk_priv should probably be an inline function instead of a macro
> 
> I used a macro because you can do
> 
>     ps3disk_pri(dev) = ...;

I'm not exactly a fan of macros used as lvalues, but if you really
want this it can go in.

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