Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] xen block backend driver.

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 04:02:12PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 19:11 +0100, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> > This is the host side counterpart to the frontend driver
> > in drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c. The PV protocol is also implemented by
> > frontend drivers in other OSes too, such as the BSDs and even Windows.
> > 
> > The patch is based on the driver from the xen.git pvops kernel tree but
> > has been put through the checkpatch.pl wringer plus several manual
> > cleanup passes. It has also been moved from drivers/xen/blkback to
> > drivers/block/xen-blback.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
> 
> Not much to say below, mostly minor nits really.

Thanks for reviewing it. I believe I've taken all your apt comments
in consideration. Will post the v3.2 shortly.

> > +/*
> > + * Function to copy the from the ring buffer the 'struct blkif_request'
> 
> Is the blkif namespace fair game? (I was asked to change netif is all)

It is shared with the frontend driver. I can definitly change it
but was thinking to do it once it is in the tree - that way it can
be one patch for both of them without having to worry about carrying
two branches for blkfront.