From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Boaz Harrosh Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] block: fix leaks associated with discard request payload Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:00:51 +0300 Message-ID: <4C29A833.1060704@panasas.com> References: <20100622180029.GA15950@redhat.com> <1277582211-10725-1-git-send-email-snitzer@redhat.com> <1277652576.4366.19.camel@mulgrave.site> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from daytona.panasas.com ([67.152.220.89]:48097 "EHLO daytona.int.panasas.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751069Ab0F2IAz (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:00:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: "Martin K. Petersen" Cc: James Bottomley , Mike Snitzer , Christoph Hellwig , axboe@kernel.dk, dm-devel@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, FUJITA Tomonori On 06/28/2010 08:16 PM, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > I'm still dreaming of the day where libata moves out from under SCSI so > we don't have to translate square pegs into round holes... > Hi Martin. Is that on the Radar still? what would you say are the major issues holding it back? * Is it just the missing new ULD, Will we be using a new ULD? * Is it the ata midlayer that would duplicate some of scsi-midlayer. (Not so much these days, lots of good code went into blk_rq_) * Is it the distro's setup procedures changing yet again back to the hd vs sd times. Thanks Boaz