From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
Vinayak Holikatti <vinholikatti@gmail.com>,
Dolev Raviv <draviv@codeaurora.org>,
Sujit Reddy Thumma <sthumma@codeaurora.org>,
Subhash Jadavani <subhashj@codeaurora.org>,
Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net>,
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Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/11] scsi: fix module reference mismatch for scsi host
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 10:18:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150120151824.GA8684@htj.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC5umyh+x_B3GOc4q=Q+2NsAK8KmaHvpyW329iG-d1yAUwN02A@mail.gmail.com>
Hello, Akinobu.
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 11:57:37PM +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> The reason I didn't move sht from the core driver to the LLDDs for
> fixing ufs and ums-* in the first place is to avoid exporting many
> symbols for callbacks in sht. But I realized that we can do it
> without that many exported symbols by creating a single function that
> returns a kmemdup()ed sht with a few change including ->module.
Hmmm, libata already exports most of the necessary symbols. libahci
or platform drivers might have to export more but that shouldn't be
much. For libata, pushing sht's to the leaf drivers would make far
more sense as sht's already get inherited and modified along the
hierarchy.
Thanks.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-20 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-18 15:05 [PATCH v4 00/11] scsi: fix module reference mismatch for scsi host Akinobu Mita
2015-01-18 15:05 ` [PATCH v4 01/11] ata: prepare to move module reference from scsi_host_template to Scsi_Host Akinobu Mita
2015-01-18 15:06 ` [PATCH v4 07/11] scsi: " Akinobu Mita
2015-01-18 15:06 ` [PATCH v4 10/11] ata: ahci_platform: adjust module reference for scsi host Akinobu Mita
2015-01-18 15:30 ` Hans de Goede
2015-01-18 15:06 ` [PATCH v4 11/11] ata: pata_of_platform: " Akinobu Mita
2015-01-19 14:22 ` [PATCH v4 00/11] scsi: fix module reference mismatch " Tejun Heo
[not found] ` <20150119142206.GE8140-Gd/HAXX7CRxy/B6EtB590w@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-20 14:57 ` Akinobu Mita
2015-01-20 15:18 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2015-01-20 15:20 ` Alan Stern
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1501201013440.1150-100000-IYeN2dnnYyZXsRXLowluHWD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
2015-01-22 13:17 ` Akinobu Mita
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