From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] block/SCSI: implement in-kernel disk event handling, take#2 Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:45:37 +0100 Message-ID: <4D0A4231.2070402@kernel.org> References: <1291838262-21274-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> <4D0A3EE1.4050404@kernel.org> <4D0A400F.5090608@kernel.dk> <4D0A4196.8040209@kernel.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:54482 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752142Ab0LPQpy (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:45:54 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4D0A4196.8040209@kernel.dk> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jens Axboe Cc: Kay Sievers , jeff@garzik.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, jack@suse.cz, James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com Hello, On 12/16/2010 05:43 PM, Jens Axboe wrote: >>>> 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. >> >> Yeah, it's nice stuff. Userspace works, but can not be made entirely >> safe. We have (rare) bugs we just can not fix otherwise than disabling >> polling. >> >>> Kay? >> >> I want it! :) >> >> If you merge it, let me know when you have a tree ready, so I can test >> the most recent version again. > > OK good, looks like we all agree... I'll queue it up in for-2.6.38 > branch and update for-next to have all that stuff. Heh, that was fast. Anyways, James, it would be great if you can take a look at the sr/sd changes. I think they're correct but that's kinda expected, so... :-) -- tejun