From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, axboe@kernel.dk,
James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
paulus@samba.org, Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com,
dwmw2@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:53:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070619055358.GD18542@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070615.141917.85409547.davem@davemloft.net>
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 02:19:17PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> Another quirk I have to deal with is that under LDOMs you
> can export full disks and also just slices. So I'll have
> to get down into the partition machinery to support that
> somehow.
What's the problem with that? Partition machinery is perfectly
fine with just getting a raw disk without a partition table,
and it obviously doesn't care if the raw disk it sees is part
of a partition on the storage server.
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org,
Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com, dwmw2@infradead.org,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:53:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070619055358.GD18542@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070615.141917.85409547.davem@davemloft.net>
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 02:19:17PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> Another quirk I have to deal with is that under LDOMs you
> can export full disks and also just slices. So I'll have
> to get down into the partition machinery to support that
> somehow.
What's the problem with that? Partition machinery is perfectly
fine with just getting a raw disk without a partition table,
and it obviously doesn't care if the raw disk it sees is part
of a partition on the storage server.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-19 5:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 89+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-15 11:39 [patch 0/6] PS3 Storage Drivers for 2.6.23, take 2 Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` [patch 1/6] ps3: Preallocate bootmem memory for the PS3 FLASH ROM storage driver Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 13:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-15 13:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-15 13:32 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 13:32 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-18 16:25 ` [patch 1/6] ps3: Preallocate bootmem memory for the PS3 FLASH Milton Miller
2007-06-19 11:36 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` [patch 2/6] ps3: Storage Driver Core Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` [patch 3/6] PS3: Storage device registration routines Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 14:35 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-15 14:35 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-15 14:41 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-15 14:41 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-15 14:41 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-15 14:43 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 16:15 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-15 16:15 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-15 18:05 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 21:19 ` David Miller
2007-06-15 21:19 ` David Miller
2007-06-15 22:40 ` James Bottomley
2007-06-15 22:40 ` James Bottomley
2007-06-15 23:08 ` David Miller
2007-06-15 23:08 ` David Miller
2007-06-15 23:28 ` James Bottomley
2007-06-15 23:28 ` James Bottomley
2007-06-15 23:37 ` David Miller
2007-06-15 23:37 ` David Miller
2007-06-19 5:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-19 6:07 ` David Miller
2007-06-19 8:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-19 8:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-15 23:11 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-15 23:11 ` Alan Cox
2007-06-16 6:21 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-16 6:21 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-19 5:53 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-06-19 5:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-19 6:03 ` David Miller
2007-06-19 6:03 ` David Miller
2007-06-19 7:06 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-19 7:06 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 21:17 ` David Miller
2007-06-15 21:17 ` David Miller
2007-06-15 21:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-15 21:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-15 21:37 ` David Miller
2007-06-15 21:37 ` David Miller
2007-06-15 21:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-15 21:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-15 21:55 ` David Miller
2007-06-15 21:55 ` David Miller
2007-06-19 5:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-19 5:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-19 12:51 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-19 12:51 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-19 17:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-19 17:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-15 11:39 ` [patch 5/6] ps3: ROM " Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-18 16:30 ` Milton Miller
2007-06-19 5:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-19 12:29 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-20 12:16 ` Milton Miller
2007-06-19 5:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-19 5:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-15 11:39 ` [patch 6/6] ps3: FLASH " Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-15 11:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-18 16:30 ` Milton Miller
2007-06-19 12:02 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-06-21 14:14 [patch 0/6] PS3 Storage Drivers for 2.6.23, take 3 Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-21 14:14 ` [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-21 14:14 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-07-04 13:22 [patch 0/6] PS3 Storage Drivers for 2.6.23, take 4 Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-07-04 13:22 ` [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-07-04 13:22 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-07-04 13:22 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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