From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 07:54:23 +0100 From: Jens Axboe To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] ps3/block: Add ps3vram-ng driver for accessing video RAM as block device Message-ID: <20090305065423.GK11787@kernel.dk> References: <1236209255.6696.75.camel@pasglop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1236209255.6696.75.camel@pasglop> Cc: Arnd Bergmann , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Development , Jim Paris , Linux/PPC Development , linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Geert Uytterhoeven , Vivien Chappelier , David Woodhouse , Cell Broadband Engine OSS Development List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Thu, Mar 05 2009, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 14:57 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Below is the rewrite of the PS3 Video RAM Storage Driver as a plain block > > device, as requested by Arnd Bergmann. > > > > The MTD-based PS3 Video RAM Storage Driver was integrated into the mainline > > kernel in 2.6.29-rc1. > > > > Ideally, we think it would be best if the existing MTD-based ps3vram driver > > would be replaced by the new block-based ps3vram driver before 2.6.29 is > > released. This would relieve the burden of supporting two different swap space > > schemes on PS3 (swap on /dev/mtdblock0 vs. /dev/ps3vram) from the distro > > maintainer's shoulders, as in that case there would never have been a stable > > kernel version containing the MTD-based ps3vram driver. > > This is very very very late ... we are at rc7, probably one rc before > final... as much as I like integrating drivers later, I'll ask Linus > opinion on this one. > > Linus ? What do you reckon ? Maybe a better option is just to remove > ps3nvram from .29 and merge the new one in .30 ? It's an isolated driver for a special purpose platform, I would have zero problems merging it :-) -- Jens Axboe