Re: EVMS Submission for 2.5

Alexander Viro
2002-10-02T22:09:23Z

On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Kevin Corry wrote:

> On behalf of the EVMS team, I'd like to submit the Enterprise Volume
> Management System for inclusion in the 2.5 Linux kernel tree.
>
> To make this as simple as possible for you, there is a Bitkeeper
> tree available with the latest EVMS source code, located at:
> http://evms.bkbits.net/linux-2.5
> This tree is sync'd with the linux-2.5 tree on linux.bkbits.net
> as of about noon today (Oct 2).

> - Add a function, walk_gendisk(), to drivers/block/genhd.c to allow
> EVMS to get information about the disks on the system from the
> gendisk list in a safe manner.

Consider that one vetoed. Linus, please do _not_ apply until that
stuff is resolved - it conflicts with a bunch of cleanups we'll
need.