From: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/14] ps3: repository misc fixes
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:39:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45BA671E.6040304@am.sony.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070126030113.GF18537@lst.de>
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 03:57:41AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 06:39:37PM -0800, Geoff Levand wrote:
>> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ps3_repository_read_bus_id);
>>
>> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ps3_repository_read_bus_type);
>>
>> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ps3_repository_read_bus_num_dev);
>>
>> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ps3_repository_read_dev_id);
>>
>> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ps3_repository_read_dev_type);
>>
>> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ps3_repository_read_dev_intr);
>>
>> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ps3_repository_find_device);
>>
>> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ps3_repository_read_stor_dev_info);
>>
>> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ps3_repository_read_stor_dev_region);
>>
>>
>> Exporting all these as procedural interfaces is very wrong. Please
>> implement a proper bustype for your hypervisor devices where all this
>> information is an attribute of the hv1_device object.
>
> In addition to that there's no user of these exports in this patch,
> so there is no point in adding any kind of export for this type of
> information at all yet. (until we have a proper storage driver)
Both good points. I'll remove this from the patch and rework it
for later submission.
-Geoff
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-26 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-25 2:39 [PATCH 1/14] ps3: repository misc fixes Geoff Levand
2007-01-25 5:56 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-01-26 2:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-26 3:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-26 20:39 ` Geoff Levand [this message]
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