Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 3 Nov 2002 11:17:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 3 Nov 2002 11:17:15 -0500 Received: from cmailg1.svr.pol.co.uk ([195.92.195.171]:7946 "EHLO cmailg1.svr.pol.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 3 Nov 2002 11:17:14 -0500 Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 16:23:56 +0000 To: "Adam J. Richter" Cc: axboe@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Patch(2.5.45): move io_restrictions to blkdev.h Message-ID: <20021103162356.GA2158@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk> References: <200211030848.AAA07537@adam.yggdrasil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200211030848.AAA07537@adam.yggdrasil.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i From: Joe Thornber Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 929 Lines: 23 On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 12:48:30AM -0800, Adam J. Richter wrote: > Great. The only thing I was going to do that might depend > on this patch is try to port /dev/loop to device mapper, and I may > be able to eliminate the affected code anyhow. This makes me uneasy, do you mean you want to: i) make a 'loop' target, if so why ? ii) or that you want to rewrite loop so that it sits on top of dm - ie. you create a set of linear mappings that correspond to the file ? This would only be sensible if there is significant simplification/reduction of the loop code, and probably would never work because of tail packing. I'm not keen on either of these ideas. - Joe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/