From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] New QStor SATA/RAID Driver for 2.6.9-rc2 Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:14:12 -0400 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <41486A54.7070607@pobox.com> References: <414711AC.5030200@rtr.ca> <41471A84.4090200@pobox.com> <4147C38C.3000104@torque.net> <414839F0.20008@rtr.ca> <20040915125545.GE4111@suse.de> <20040915131311.GD642@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:30385 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266725AbUIOQOa (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:14:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20040915131311.GD642@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Jens Axboe , Mark Lord , dougg@torque.net, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 02:55:46PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > >>The remaining piece (well the biggest one at least) is a nice /dev/disk >>abstraction. That's currently the biggest obstacle to nice generic block >>drivers, not the infrastructure. > > > I'll just take this opportunity to plug /dev/drive over /dev/disk. I'll take this opportunity to recommend that posters avoid following this sub-thread, for fear of distracting from the real technical issues.... Jeff