[patch 6/7] ps3: ROM Storage Driver

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Sat May 26 07:04:29 EST 2007


On Friday 25 May 2007, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 
> > What is the problem? Is there infrastructure missing in the
> > CD-ROM layer?
> 
> As the CD/DVD/BD part just accepts SCSI/ATAPI commands (except for plain
> read/write), I was suggested to keep it as a SCSI driver.

Ok, so I guess the tradeoff here is that by writing it as a SCSI
driver, you don't need to implement any of the cdrom_device_ops
yourself but instead need to fake a few of the SCSI commands
in ps3rom_request(). Fair enough.

	Arnd <><



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