linux-kernel - Re: [PATH 0/4] Memstick patches for 2.6.39

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Date:	Wed, 23 Mar 2011 02:59:34 +0200
From:	Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, oakad@...oo.com,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATH 0/4] Memstick patches for 2.6.39

On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 16:21 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:42:51 +0200
> Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2011-03-19 at 23:47 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 05:09:05 +0200 Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > 
> > ...
> >
> > Also, I don't have much time now to improve the ms_block driver till
> > this summer (studying).
> > The driver works. Yes it has a flaw in regard to scatterlist processing,
> > because I didn't find a better way to deal with this monster, but I will
> > fix that later. I am not the kind of guy that runs away after a merge.
> > It would be nice to just see my code in kernel, code I wrote more that a
> > year ago.
> > 
> > This flaw is purely theoretical. Driver does work.
> 
> Lots of code is "flawed but works".  The place for such code is
> drivers/staging/ - it gets put in there so the code is available for
> those who need the driver and the code is later moved over into
> drivers/ once the flaws have been addressed.
> 
> So a path forward here would be for us to put the driver and the
> sglist extensions into a directory under drivers/staging/.
Ok, I won't be fighting with you over this one.

However, I ask for this:


1. Please merge r592.c, it doesn't depend on anything.

2. Please review ms_block.c for other problems that might prevent merge.
For example when I published the sg list helpers, nobody told me that I
am not allowed to add them. Actually the opposite, I was told to put
them in scatterlist.c.
When I did so, again I was told that I didn't do the kerneldoc comments
right, and also was told to improve few of the functions.
Now I did all that, and I am told that scatterlist usage in my driver is
no-go. OK. But what else is there that you don't like?

Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky



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