Please give all the driver a unique prefix, hv_ is a bit to generic. mshv might be better. What's the point of the blksvc driver? It is implemented as a block driver, steals the major number of the IDE driver, which is a big no-no and speaks a SCSI-like protocol to the host. In what way does this protocol differ from the full SCSI protocol in the storvsc driver? As far as the storsvc driver is converned: please merge the storvsc.c and storvsc_drv.c, as they are only used together. Also please try to clean up the way you use function pointers. E.g. the OnDeviceAdd/OnDeviceRemove/OnCleanup methods should be part of a mshv_driver structure, and not store into individual objects. Please get rid of the *_context structure that only have a single intance anyway. In generaly a Linux driver should not have any global state except for maybe module paramters or a list of devices in cases where the device model can't handle that. Please clean up the calling convention for the init code, there is absolutely no reason to pass stor_vsc_initialize as a function pointer to storvsc_drv_init instead of calling it directly, and in fact there is no reason to not just inline both of those into storvsc_init. One all the function pointers are moved into a driver struct and the global context is gone there will be almost no code left in there anyway. Similarly the exit routine is implemented entirely wrong. The core bus layer should iterate over all devices for the driver beeing unregister and call back into the ->remove callback just for that device. Try to follow common real hardware busses like pci, usb or for a really simple one eisa in your design. There is no reason to have a per-device slab cache, a global one is enough. But for per-I/O allocations you'll need a mempool to make it deadlock-free. Do you really need scsi_scan_host for a virtualized scsi transport? Is there no way for the host to tell you which LUNs actually are present? Why do you bother to linearize S/G lists? If your host can't handle it just tell the scsi layer that you have a sg_tablesize of 1, which means you'll never get multiple S/G elements. (Not doing SG is really, really sad for new virtual hardware btw, please take the crack away from the person who designed it). Also can you please avoid forward declaration of functions as much as possible? They really make the code hard to read if used as much as in these drivers. That's it for the first round, I'm pretty sure there will be more comments once the code is better structured and more readabke. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
