From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:16:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060825121621.GA24258@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32640.1156424442@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>
On Thu, Aug 24 2006, David Howells wrote:
>
> Make it possible to disable the block layer. Not all embedded devices require
> it, some can make do with just JFFS2, NFS, ramfs, etc - none of which require
> the block layer to be present.
Overall, this looks good. It's definitely something that has been talked
about for years (off and on), but nobody ever did. So thanks David!
When you respin this patch, care to do it against the 'block' branch of
the git block repo?
> (*) The SCSI layer. As far as I can tell, even SCSI chardevs use the
> block layer to do scheduling.
SCSI uses the queue as the transport even for char devices, so yes you
have to leave all of SCSI behind.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-25 12:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-24 13:00 [PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer David Howells
2006-08-24 13:13 ` David Woodhouse
2006-08-24 13:34 ` David Howells
2006-08-24 13:40 ` David Woodhouse
2006-08-24 13:54 ` David Howells
2006-08-24 13:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-24 14:42 ` Nick Piggin
2006-08-24 15:29 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-08-24 15:44 ` David Woodhouse
2006-08-24 15:58 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-08-24 16:00 ` David Woodhouse
2006-08-24 16:09 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-08-24 16:47 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-08-24 17:07 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-08-24 17:16 ` David Woodhouse
2006-08-24 17:34 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-08-24 17:48 ` David Woodhouse
2006-08-24 17:59 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-08-25 6:23 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-25 7:19 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-08-24 18:01 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-08-25 6:21 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-25 6:07 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-25 10:37 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-08-25 13:09 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-08-24 16:39 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-24 16:44 ` David Woodhouse
2006-08-24 16:48 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-08-24 21:31 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2006-08-25 6:04 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-24 18:39 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2006-08-25 6:06 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-24 17:18 ` David Howells
2006-08-24 17:23 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-08-24 16:23 ` Stefan Richter
2006-08-25 12:16 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2006-08-25 13:40 ` David Howells
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