From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265158AbTLWPH6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 10:07:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265160AbTLWPH6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 10:07:58 -0500 Received: from smithers.nildram.co.uk ([195.112.4.54]:10256 "EHLO smithers.nildram.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265158AbTLWPH5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2003 10:07:57 -0500 Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 15:10:43 +0000 From: Joe Thornber To: Christoph Hellwig , Christophe Saout , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Fruhwirth Clemens , Joe Thornber Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add dm-daemon Message-ID: <20031223151043.GD476@reti> References: <1072129379.5570.73.camel@leto.cs.pocnet.net> <20031222214952.GA13103@leto.cs.pocnet.net> <20031223122751.A6498@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031223122751.A6498@infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 12:27:51PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 10:49:52PM +0100, Christophe Saout wrote: > > Hi. > > > > The first patch adds dm-daemon.c/.h. > > > > The code is from Joe Thornbers current unstable device-mapper patchset. > > This should really be in generic code, not in DM. I remember I did > something similar as kthread abstraction a while ago, but it didn't head > anywhere.. Agreed, but lets put it into drivers/md to start with and move it later when it matures. There are still a couple of interface changes I want to make, and I'm not yet convinced that I've got it yielding enough on 2.6. - Joe