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 _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
