Re: [PATCH 01/13] md/raid6: move raid6 data processing to raid6_pq.ko

From: Andre Noll
Date: Thu Mar 19 2009 - 16:41:35 EST


On 12:20, Dan Williams wrote:
> Move the raid6 data processing routines into a standalone module
> (raid6_pq) to prepare them to be called from async_tx wrappers and other
> non-md drivers/modules. This precludes a circular dependency of raid456
> needing the async modules for data processing while those modules in
> turn depend on raid456 for the base level synchronous raid6 routines.
>
> To support this move:
> 1/ The exportable definitions in raid6.h move to include/linux/raid/pq.h

As raid*.h and md.h have been moved to drivers/md recently, pq.h
should probably live there as well.

> +#define time_before(x, y) ((x) < (y))

This macro seems to have no users (and a strange name).

Regards
Andre
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