Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Mar 2009 08:59:40 +0100 (CET) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH/RFC] ps3/block: Add ps3vram-ng driver for accessing video RAM as block device |
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On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Olaf Hering wrote: > Am 04.03.2009 um 14:57 schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven: > >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. > > openSuSE already ships with the ps3vram driver since a two releases. > A simple name based udev rule could symlink ps3vram to mtdblock0, so an > upgrade > will not break existing setups.
OK.
> >+obj-$(CONFIG_PS3_VRAM) += ps3vram_ng.o > > Please give the driver the obvious name "ps3vram", that way upgrading will be > smooth.
Sure, as I said:
| I'll submit a patch to remove the MTD | ps3vram and add the new driver as ps3vram (instead of ps3vram-ng).
> I see our old mtddriver does not have modalias support for autoloading.
You forgot to backport commit 0a2d15b928e0b1673d4ed5f48d95af211b6fcc06 ("mtd/ps3vram: Add modalias support to the ps3vram driver") to the openSuSE tree?
> Hopefully the new driver has this feature.
Yes, it has.
With kind regards,
Geert Uytterhoeven Software Architect
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