linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH 2/5] bfa: Brocade BFA FC SCSI driver submission

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Date:	Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:07:11 -0800
From:	"Jing Huang" <huangj@...cade.COM>
To:	"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	<James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	"Krishna Gudipati" <kgudipat@...cade.com>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Ramkumar Vadivelu" <rvadivel@...cade.COM>,
	"Vinodh Ravindran" <vravindr@...cade.COM>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 2/5] bfa: Brocade BFA FC SCSI driver submission



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:hch@...radead.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 2:16 PM
> To: Jing Huang
> Cc: James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com; Krishna Gudipati; linux-
> kernel@...r.kernel.org; linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org; Ramkumar Vadivelu;
> Vinodh Ravindran
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] bfa: Brocade BFA FC SCSI driver submission
> 
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:54:07AM -0800, Jing Huang wrote:
> > +/**
> > + * Generic HAL callback element.
> > + */
> > +struct bfa_cb_qe_s {
> > +	struct bfa_q_s         qe;
> > +	bfa_cb_cbfn_t  cbfn;
> > +	bfa_boolean_t   once;
> > +	u32		rsvd;
> > +	void           *cbarg;
> > +};
> > +
> > +#define bfa_cb_queue(__bfa, __hcb_qe, __cbfn, __cbarg) do {
\
> > +	(__hcb_qe)->cbfn  = (__cbfn);
\
> > +	(__hcb_qe)->cbarg = (__cbarg);
\
> > +	bfa_q_enq(&(__bfa)->comp_q, (__hcb_qe));
\
> > +} while (0)
> 
> Please stop here, weird HALs and own list management routines are not
> things we put into the tree.  (except for gregs junk subdirectory..)
> 
> Please rewrite this into a proper Linux driver.


Thanks Christoph for the code review,

I will clean up all the HAL references and also replace our own list
management code with standard linux implementation.

Jing
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