Re: [GIT PATCH] final SCSI updates for 2.6.24 merge window

Christoph Hellwig
2008-02-08T05:05:35Z

On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 07:11:33PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
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> > Sob. Can we please merge "Convert SG from nopage to fault"?
>
> Heh. I just took it directly then.
>
> I think it's more of a VM patch than a SCSI patch anyway, so I don't think
> you really should even have tried to push it through the SCSI tree.
>
> It's not like we ever do the low-level FS changes for VFS issues through
> the FS maintainers anyway (ie you sent me all those iget/read_inode things
> directly rather than trying to go through each filesystem). I don't think
> this is any different, really.

Yes. For ->faul Nick should just have sent on the whole batch after
giving fs/driver people enough time to review it.