[RFC PATCH 5/5] CELL bogus_console port to hvc_console backend driver

Eric V Van hensbergen ericvanhensbergen at us.ibm.com
Tue Dec 6 04:14:04 EST 2005


rsa at us.ltcfwd.linux.ibm.com wrote on 12/05/2005 11:11:11 AM:

> On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 08:45 -0600, Eric V Van hensbergen wrote:
> > Its a relatively small knit-pick, but the callthru functions should
> > probably
> > be kept in a common include.  My patch-set has
> > include/asm-powerpc/systemsim.h
> > which includes these definitions.  That way we don't have to define the
> > callthru's for every driver which might use them (such as BogusNet or
> > BogusDisk).
> >
> >            -eric
>
> Thanks Eric,
>
> I did question whether the console driver was the appropriate place for
> the callthru when I moved the definitions from bogus_console.c.  I guess
> we won't see these definitions moved to an alternate file until Arnd
> makes his patches available against a more recent kernel?
>

You can get to my (generic systemsim patches) via kernel.org:
/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/systemsim.git

You should be able to pull the general definitiions from there if you want
to update your patch.

           -eric




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