Re: [PATCH/RFC] ps3/block: Add ps3vram-ng driver for accessing video RAM as block device

On Thu, Mar 05 2009, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 14:57 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

quoted

	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