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Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 04:15:55 -0400
From: 'Greg KH' <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: "Sell, Timothy C" <Timothy.Sell@...sys.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] drivers: Add visorbus to the drivers/virt directory
On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 02:48:18AM +0000, Sell, Timothy C wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@...uxfoundation.org]
> > Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2016 2:05 PM
> > To: Kershner, David A <David.Kershner@...sys.com>
> > Cc: corbet@....net; tglx@...utronix.de; mingo@...hat.com;
> > hpa@...or.com; Arfvidson, Erik <Erik.Arfvidson@...sys.com>; Sell, Timothy
> > C <Timothy.Sell@...sys.com>; hofrat@...dl.org; dzickus@...hat.com;
> > jes.sorensen@...hat.com; Curtin, Alexander Paul
> > <Alexander.Curtin@...sys.com>; janani.rvchndrn@...il.com;
> > sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com; prarit@...hat.com; Binder, David Anthony
> > <David.Binder@...sys.com>; nhorman@...hat.com;
> > dan.j.williams@...el.com; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; linux-
> > doc@...r.kernel.org; driverdev-devel@...uxdriverproject.org; *S-Par-
> > Maintainer <SParMaintainer@...sys.com>
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] drivers: Add visorbus to the drivers/virt directory
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 11:23:56PM -0400, David Kershner wrote:
> > > visorbus is currently located at drivers/staging/visorbus,
> > > this patch moves it to drivers/virt.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: David Kershner <david.kershner@...sys.com>
> > > Reviewed-by: Tim Sell <Timothy.Sell@...sys.com>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/staging/unisys/Kconfig | 3 +--
> > > drivers/staging/unisys/Makefile | 1 -
> > > drivers/virt/Kconfig | 2 ++
> > > drivers/virt/Makefile | 1 +
> > > drivers/{staging/unisys => virt}/visorbus/Kconfig | 0
> > > drivers/{staging/unisys => virt}/visorbus/Makefile | 0
> > > drivers/{staging/unisys => virt}/visorbus/controlvmchannel.h | 0
> > > drivers/{staging/unisys => virt}/visorbus/controlvmcompletionstatus.h | 0
> > > drivers/{staging/unisys => virt}/visorbus/iovmcall_gnuc.h | 0
> > > drivers/{staging/unisys => virt}/visorbus/vbuschannel.h | 0
> > > drivers/{staging/unisys => virt}/visorbus/vbusdeviceinfo.h | 0
> > > drivers/{staging/unisys => virt}/visorbus/vbushelper.h | 0
> > > drivers/{staging/unisys => virt}/visorbus/visorbus_main.c | 0
> > > drivers/{staging/unisys => virt}/visorbus/visorbus_private.h | 0
> > > drivers/{staging/unisys => virt}/visorbus/visorchannel.c | 0
> > > drivers/{staging/unisys => virt}/visorbus/visorchipset.c | 0
> >
> > I picked one random file here, this last one, and found a number of
> > "odd" things in it.
> >
> > So, given that I can't really comment on the patch itself, I'm going to
> > include the file below, quote it, and then provide some comments, ok?
> > > /* visorchipset_main.c
> > > ...
> > > static void
> > > controlvm_init_response(struct controlvm_message *msg,
> > > struct controlvm_message_header *msg_hdr, int response)
> > > {
> > > memset(msg, 0, sizeof(struct controlvm_message));
> > > memcpy(&msg->hdr, msg_hdr, sizeof(struct controlvm_message_header));
> > > msg->hdr.payload_bytes = 0;
> > > msg->hdr.payload_vm_offset = 0;
> > > msg->hdr.payload_max_bytes = 0;
> > > if (response < 0) {
> > > msg->hdr.flags.failed = 1;
> > > msg->hdr.completion_status = (u32)(-response);
> > > }
> > > }
> > >
> > > static void
> > > Billy(struct controlvm_message_header *msg_hdr, int response)
> >
> > Not John? Bob? Sally? Alice? Bernise? Jean? Molly?
>
> Huh? What version of source code are you looking at??
>
> The file being moved by this patch should be
> drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/visorchipset.c in your staging-next branch
> (https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git/tree/drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/visorchipset.c?h=staging-next).
> If you look there, you will NOT find "Billy()", but instead "controlvm_respond()", i.e.:
>
> static void
> controlvm_init_response(struct controlvm_message *msg,
> struct controlvm_message_header *msg_hdr, int response)
oh that's funny, I have no idea what happened here, perhaps when I
copied the file into the original email? Strange things happen while on
planes...
Anyway, ok, one comment addressed, great! Now about the many many
others?
thanks,
greg k-h
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