[PATCH] ps3/block: Replace mtd/ps3vram by block/ps3vram (was: Re: [PATCH/RFC] ps3/block: Add ps3vram-ng driver for accessing video RAM as block device)

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 05 2009, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 14:57 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > 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 :-)

Here's the new version, incorporating all the review comments.

Please apply for 2.6.29, thanks!
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