On Sunday 23 December 2007, Adrian McMenamin wrote: > On 23/12/2007, Adrian McMenamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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