[patch 7/7] ps3: FLASH ROM Storage Driver

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Tue May 29 20:51:35 EST 2007


On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 11:57:52AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, 29 May 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 10:36:14AM +0200, Geert.Uytterhoeven at sonycom.com wrote:
> > > Add a FLASH ROM Storage Driver for the PS3:
> > >   - Implemented as a misc character device driver
> > >   - Uses a fixed 256 KiB buffer allocated from boot memory as the hypervisor
> > >     requires the writing of aligned 256 KiB blocks
> > 
> > Looks good, but please either make the driver aware of multiple devices
> > even if they can't happen currently, or alternatively error out in
> > ->probe if of some reason it's called for a second device.
> 
> ps3flash_probe() does return -EBUSY when called for a second device.

You're right, I missed that bit.



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