linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] move visorbus out of staging to drivers/virt/visorbus

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Message-ID: <20170607135952.GB20110@infradead.org>
Date:   Wed, 7 Jun 2017 06:59:52 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     David Kershner <david.kershner@...sys.com>, corbet@....net,
        tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...nel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        jes.sorensen@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, driverdev-devel@...uxdriverproject.org,
        sparmaintainer@...sys.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] move visorbus out of staging to drivers/virt/visorbus

On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 04:49:09PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 04:07:29PM -0400, David Kershner wrote:
> > This patchset moves drivers/staging/unisys/include to
> > include/linux/visorbus, and moves drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus to
> > drivers/virt/visorbus.
> 
> Um, are you thinking it is ready to be moved?  Have you asked for
> another review?
> 
> In a totally random chance, I was doing some driver core work today and
> I noticed that in drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/visorbus_main.c, you
> have 2 tabs for your 'struct attribute' variables, which is really odd.

That's the least of the problems.  Just about any function in there is
doing functionally stupid things.  E.g. raw sg_phys() calls for I/O
instead of dma mapping routines or parsing SCSI INQUIRY data in the
driver.