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Re: [Xen-devel] scsi passthrough in pvops kernel

To: James Harper <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] scsi passthrough in pvops kernel
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:29:54 -0700
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On 09/24/09 15:25, James Harper wrote:
> Noboru sent me a pre-release copy of his next release. He will be
> officially releasing sometime soon so I'll wait until then if he hasn't
> ported them already. With my updates the drivers compile under the pvops
> kernel but they call usb_buffer_free with interrupts disabled and
> dma_free_coherent doesn't like it (billions of warnings logged).
>   

Yes, sounds like that ought to be fixed.

> Are you interested in putting in usbback (and scsiback - I'll do that
> shortly if nobody else does) without the corresponding frontend drivers?
> My main focus is the Windows GPLPV frontend drivers so the Linux
> frontend drivers aren't a priority for me at this point... I can
> probably convert scsifront as scsi drivers are pretty basic but a lot of
> this usb stuff still baffles me :)

Sure.  I can stick them on their own branch if they're not really ready
for general use.

    J

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