From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] block/SCSI: implement in-kernel disk event handling, take#2 Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:36:31 +0100 Message-ID: <4D0A400F.5090608@kernel.dk> References: <1291838262-21274-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> <4D0A3EE1.4050404@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4D0A3EE1.4050404@kernel.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Tejun Heo Cc: jeff@garzik.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, kay.sievers@vrfy.org, jack@suse.cz, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On 2010-12-16 17:31, Tejun Heo wrote: > On 12/08/2010 08:57 PM, Tejun Heo wrote: >> This is the second take of in-kernel-disk-event patchset which >> implements in-kernel disk event handling framework and adds support >> for it to sr and sd. This is largely to move media presence polling >> into kernel as userspace implementation turned out to be quite >> problematic over the years. > > Kay, Jens, James, how does this look to you guys? I like the concept, this is probably what we should have done all along. The user space method has been tried and failed. So I was mostly laying it low waiting for feedback before integrating this. Kay? -- Jens Axboe