From: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
michael@ellerman.id.au, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] powerpc/ps3: Use hard coded values for LV1 device type
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:46:19 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <499203BB.5010902@am.sony.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1234151988.8776.4.camel@localhost.localdomain>
James Bottomley wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 11:11 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>> The PS3 platform code wants to use some of the standard SCSI types from
>> there though, as they are part of the hypervisor ABI. (And in fact it
>> can be argued that non-block devices using SCSI do exist, such as
>> scanners, no ?)
>>
>> Any reason other than pre-historical to have blkdev.h shielded like
>> that ?
>
> Actually, I think the fix lies in scsi.h ... we can make that into a
> nicely independent protocol header file. Your current woes come because
> it pulls in scsi_cmnd.h ... perhaps just getting rid of this will fix
> it.
>
> Can the rest of linux-scsi verify that the fix below doesn't break
> something else?
>
> I found one cockup: block/cmd-filter.c is apparently not including
> linuc/blkdev.h directly but via scsi/scsi.h ... I fixed this up.
...
> diff --git a/block/cmd-filter.c b/block/cmd-filter.c
> diff --git a/include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h b/include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h
I tested this scsi header fix on PS3 and it fixes the BLK_MAX_CDB
not defined build error when CONFIG_BLOCK=n.
Acked-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
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2009-02-09 3:59 ` [patch] powerpc/ps3: Use hard coded values for LV1 device type James Bottomley
2009-02-10 22:46 ` Geoff Levand [this message]
2009-02-11 5:28 ` Sachin P. Sant
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