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 00/19] BLOCK: Permit block layer to be disabled [try #5]
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 19:54:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060829175421.GS12257@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060829164549.15723.15017.stgit@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>
On Tue, Aug 29 2006, David Howells wrote:
>
> This set of patches permits the block layer to be disabled and removed from
> the compilation such that it doesn't take up any resources on systems that
> don't need it.
>
> This set of patches is against the block git tree.
>
> Changes in [try #5]:
>
> (*) Update to block GIT tree for 2.6.18-rc5.
>
> (*) Make USB_STORAGE depend on SCSI rather than selecting it.
>
> (*) Remove dependencies on BLOCK where there are also dependencies on SCSI.
Any remaining changes? Looks fine to me, although I wonder why you did
not kill the block_sync_page() completely in AFS. Christophs analysis
looked correct to me.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-29 17:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-29 16:45 [PATCH 00/19] BLOCK: Permit block layer to be disabled [try #5] David Howells
2006-08-29 16:45 ` [PATCH 01/19] BLOCK: Move functions out of buffer code " David Howells
2006-08-29 16:45 ` [PATCH 02/19] BLOCK: Remove duplicate declaration of exit_io_context() " David Howells
2006-08-29 16:45 ` [PATCH 03/19] BLOCK: Stop fallback_migrate_page() from using page_has_buffers() " David Howells
2006-08-29 16:45 ` [PATCH 04/19] BLOCK: Separate the bounce buffering code from the highmem code " David Howells
2006-08-29 16:46 ` [PATCH 05/19] BLOCK: Don't call block_sync_page() from AFS " David Howells
2006-08-29 16:46 ` [PATCH 06/19] BLOCK: Move extern declarations out of fs/*.c into header files " David Howells
2006-08-29 16:46 ` [PATCH 07/19] BLOCK: Remove dependence on existence of blockdev_superblock " David Howells
2006-08-29 16:46 ` [PATCH 08/19] BLOCK: Dissociate generic_writepages() from mpage stuff " David Howells
2006-08-29 16:46 ` [PATCH 09/19] BLOCK: Move __invalidate_device() to block_dev.c " David Howells
2006-08-29 16:46 ` [PATCH 10/19] BLOCK: Move the loop device ioctl compat stuff to the loop driver " David Howells
2006-08-29 16:46 ` [PATCH 11/19] BLOCK: Move common FS-specific ioctls to linux/fs.h " David Howells
2006-08-29 16:46 ` [PATCH 12/19] BLOCK: Move the ReiserFS device ioctl compat stuff to the ReiserFS driver " David Howells
2006-08-29 16:46 ` [PATCH 13/19] BLOCK: Move the Ext2 device ioctl compat stuff to the Ext2 " David Howells
2006-08-29 16:46 ` [PATCH 14/19] BLOCK: Move the Ext3 device ioctl compat stuff to the Ext3 " David Howells
2006-08-29 16:46 ` [PATCH 15/19] BLOCK: Move the msdos device ioctl compat stuff to the msdos " David Howells
2006-08-29 16:46 ` [PATCH 16/19] BLOCK: Remove no-longer necessary linux/mpage.h inclusions " David Howells
2006-08-29 16:46 ` [PATCH 17/19] BLOCK: Remove no-longer necessary linux/buffer_head.h " David Howells
2006-08-29 16:46 ` [PATCH 18/19] BLOCK: Make USB storage depend on SCSI rather than selecting it " David Howells
2006-08-29 16:46 ` [PATCH 19/19] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer " David Howells
2006-08-29 17:54 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2006-08-29 18:05 ` [PATCH 00/19] BLOCK: Permit block layer to be disabled " David Howells
2006-08-29 18:28 ` David Howells
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