Re: [PATCH - SH/Dreamcast] CD-Rom (GD-Rom) support for the SEGA Dreamcast

[Mike Frysinger]

On Sunday 23 December 2007, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> On 23/12/2007, Adrian McMenamin <lkmladrian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This patch adds support for the CD-Rom (the so-called "GD-Rom") on the
> > SEGA Dreamcast.
> >
> > The GD-Rom is based on the ATA-3 standard but implements a proprietary
> > packet interface - the so-called Sega Packet Interface (SPI) and
> > supports a proprietary CD format (the "Giga Disk"). This driver
> > implements the SPI at least partially and will also read GD disks.
> >
> > There was a CD Rom driver for the 2.4 kernel series (out of mainline).
> > This, though, is new code and unlike the previous driver uses DMA and
> > not PIO to read disks.
> >
> > This is the third iteration of this patch - there remains the issue of
> > __init versus __devinit - see http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/23/130 but
> > I think otherwise it has dealt with most people's suggestions. The one
> > exception is that Jens suggested using sector_div, though I found that
> >  did not work.
>
> Unfortunately that patch was lined wrapped.

what e-mail client do you use ?  they usually have options for you to turn off 
line wrapping ...

> Here it is (actually, slightly fixed) again.

running it through checkpatch finds a few syntax issues ... might want to do 
that real quick and post a new one (just ignore the 80 chars warning as you 
see fit).
-mike

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