Re: [PATCH 05/44 take 2] [UBI] internal common header

From: Artem Bityutskiy
Date: Tue Feb 20 2007 - 08:07:03 EST


On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 10:54 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 06:54:49PM +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> > +#ifndef __UBI_UBI_H__
> > +#define __UBI_UBI_H__
> > +
> > +#include <linux/mtd/ubi.h>
> > +
> > +/* Version of this UBI implementation */
> > +#define UBI_VERSION 1
> We shouldn't have versions for inkernel interfaces.

What do you mean? It is internal version just for future help: if we
develop incompatible UBI2 the old UBI will reject the new images.

> > +/* UBI messages printk level */
> > +#define UBI_MSG_LEVEL KERN_INFO
> > +#define UBI_WARN_LEVEL KERN_WARNING
> > +#define UBI_ERR_LEVEL KERN_ERR
>
> Please use the KERN_ macros directly.

Will be done, thanks.

> > +/* UBI error messages */
> > +#define ubi_err(fmt, ...) \
> > + printk(UBI_ERR_LEVEL UBI_ERR_PREF " %s " fmt "\n", __FUNCTION__, \
> > + ##__VA_ARGS__)
>
> you should probably use dev_printk and the wrappers around it in most
> places.

I will look at it, thanks.

> > +extern int ubis_num;
> > +extern struct ubi_info *ubis[UBI_MAX_INSTANCES];
>
> Having this kind of global information directly exposed is a very
> bad idea. In general you only want to access it through more
> specific information and avoid allocating the global array at all.

I do not see what is the problem with this. Please, refine.

--
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (ÐÐÑÑÑÐÐÐ ÐÑÑÑÐ)

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