Re: [PATCH] bind bsg to request_queue instead of gendisk

[Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>]

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 02:53:31AM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
>> It seems that it would be better to bind bsg devices to request_queue
>> instead of gendisk. This enables any objects to define own
>> request_handler and create own bsg device (under sysfs).
>>
>> Possible enhancements:
>>
>> - I removed gendisk but it would be better for objects having gendisk
>> to keep it for nice features like disk stats.
>>
>> - Objects that wants to use bsg need to setup a request_queue. Maybe
>> wrapper functions to setup a request_queue for them would be useful.
>>
>> This patch was tested only with disk drivers.
>>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
>> ---
>>  block/bsg.c            |   37 +++++++++++++++++--------------------
> 
> What is this patch against?  scsi-misc?
> 
> I certainly like the bsg solution, but block/bsg.c does not exist in my
> vanilla linux-2.6.git tree :)

www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-2.6-block.git

branch: bsg