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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH 00/13] firewire-sbp-target: FireWire SBP-2 SCSI target
On 12/02/2012 14:12, Stefan Richter wrote:
> On Feb 11 Chris Boot wrote:
>> Well after lots of work I have a working and generally (at least I think)
>> sensible starting point for the FireWire target. It appears to work fine in all
>> the configurations I've tested it against, including Linux and Mac OS X
>> initiators.
>
> I only very quickly scrolled through your patches yet. Looks all very
> readable and well laid out. Some random thoughts:

Thanks for taking a look!

> Some of the smaller source files could certainly be merged with other
> ones without loss of readability.

Yes, definitely.

> Some comments about what the code is doing can be removed since the
> function names are very well readable on their own. Example:
> + /* read the peer's GUID */
> + ret = read_peer_guid(&guid, req);

Guilty as charged. I'll go through and clean this up.

> The APIs which you include from "../../firewire/core.h" should eventually
> be moved to<linux/firewire.h>. I think it does not matter whether this
> is done before or after mainline merge. When we do so we should check
> whether the affected APIs can be improved for usage in drivers.

I'm not even sure I use that much from there at all. Possibly only
fw_card_{get,put,release}(), so that could quite easily be moved into
<linux/firewire.h>.

> Many of the printks should surely be demoted to debug messages with
> runtime on-and-off switch.

I've moved a lot of them to pr_debug() which doesn't emit anything
unless you ask it to. Are there others you think should be pr_debug()
that aren't?

> There are list traversals and list manipulations that make an impression
> as if they wanted to be mutex- or lock-protected, but I haven't looked yet
> in which contexts these accesses happen.

Yes this is what I'm most concerned about but it's an area I know very
little about. Some hand-holding would be appreciated.

> sbp_proto.c:
> +/*
> + * Handlers for Serial Attached SCSI (SBP)
> + */
> ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Serial Bus Protocol
> Though this is also readily apparent from the top comment in the file.

Hah. Can you tell where I copied and pasted from? :-) Fixed.

> The four EXPORT_SYMBOLs in sbp_proto.c can be removed, it seems.

Another copy & paste leftover. Also fixed.

> sbp_login.c:
> + pr_notice("initiator already logged-in\n");
> +
> + /*
> + * SBP-2 R4 says we should return access denied, but
> + * that can confuse initiators. Instead we need to
> + * treat this like a reconnect, but send the login
> + * response block like a fresh login.
> + */
> Are there initiators which don't bother with reconnect but send relogin
> straight away?

I found my PowerBook did. It looks like when OpenFirmware hands over to
Darwin, the latter just does a login. I changed this before I had the
code to expire sessions once the reconnect timeout expires though so
it's probably unnecessary now but it would slow down the boot by several
seconds.

> Kconfig:
> "default n" is redundant.
> "*older* Apple computers": They are still manufactured with this feature.

I thought all the newer ones only did this over Thunderbolt and not
FireWire? I'm more than happy to change this though.

Cheers,
Chris

--
Chris Boot
bootc@bootc.net


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