Re: [patch 0/6] ps3vram driver patches

2009-01-08 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wednesday 07 January 2009, Geoff Levand wrote: > > Geert and I were discussing actually removing the direct write to the XDR > > memory, and so the need for that ioremap, as the mapping is just used in > > ps3vram_erase(), which seems could be removed.

Re: [patch 0/6] ps3vram driver patches

2009-01-07 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Wednesday 07 January 2009, Geoff Levand wrote: > Geert and I were discussing actually removing the direct write to the XDR > memory, and so the need for that ioremap, as the mapping is just used in > ps3vram_erase(), which seems could be removed. Ah, I see. I also forgot to mention that the io

Re: [patch 0/6] ps3vram driver patches

2009-01-07 Thread Geoff Levand
Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 06 January 2009, Geoff Levand wrote: >> Patches 3-6 are minor cleanups suggested by Arnd Bergmann. I have left two >> of Arnd's sugestions, implementing the driver as a block device, similar to >> the axonram driver, and eliminating the need to ioremap. These wil

Re: [patch 0/6] ps3vram driver patches

2009-01-07 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Tuesday 06 January 2009, Geoff Levand wrote: > Patches 3-6 are minor cleanups suggested by Arnd Bergmann.  I have left two > of Arnd's sugestions, implementing the driver as a block device, similar to > the axonram driver, and eliminating the need to ioremap.  These will require > a significant

[patch 0/6] ps3vram driver patches

2009-01-06 Thread Geoff Levand
Hi Ben, This is a set of patches for the ps3vram driver. Patch 1 adds the driver. It has already been reviewed on the cbe-oss-dev ML and has been acked by David Woodhouse, so should be ready to merge. Patch 2 is a minor update to reflect changes to the ps3-system-bus that have been merged into