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From: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am•sony.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership•com>
Cc: linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger•kernel.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@csn•ul.ie>,
	Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux•vnet.ibm.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle•com>
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>

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-10 22:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-06 16:58 2.6.29-rc3-git9 build break : arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/setup.o Sachin P. Sant
2009-02-07  2:42 ` [patch] powerpc/ps3: Use hard coded values for LV1 device type Geoff Levand
2009-02-07 17:41   ` Sachin P. Sant
2009-02-08 11:29   ` Michael Ellerman
2009-02-09  0:11     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-02-09  3:59       ` James Bottomley
2009-02-10 22:46         ` Geoff Levand [this message]
2009-02-11  5:28         ` Sachin P. Sant

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