Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752386AbaGaUar (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2014 16:30:47 -0400 Received: from mga03.intel.com ([143.182.124.21]:37786 "EHLO mga03.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751966AbaGaUap (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2014 16:30:45 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.01,774,1400050800"; d="scan'208";a="463729163" From: "Zwisler, Ross" To: "openosd@gmail.com" CC: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "willy@linux.intel.com" , "martin.petersen@oracle.com" , "Wilcox, Matthew R" , "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 04/22] Change direct_access calling convention Thread-Topic: [PATCH v8 04/22] Change direct_access calling convention Thread-Index: AQHPrP403h2bNslEHkOap3XJoZ/hlA== Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 20:30:02 +0000 Message-ID: <1406838602.14136.12.camel@rzwisler-mobl1.amr.corp.intel.com> References: <53D9174C.7040906@gmail.com> <20140730194503.GQ6754@linux.intel.com> <53DA165E.8040601@gmail.com> <20140731141315.GT6754@linux.intel.com> <53DA60A5.1030304@gmail.com> <20140731171953.GU6754@linux.intel.com> <53DA8518.3090604@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <53DA8518.3090604@gmail.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [10.232.112.154] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by mail.home.local id s6VKUpBx011631 On Thu, 2014-07-31 at 21:04 +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > On 07/31/2014 08:19 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 06:28:37PM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > >> Matthew what is your opinion about this, do we need to push for removal > >> of the partition dead code which never worked for brd, or we need to push > >> for fixing and implementing new partition support for brd? > > > > Fixing the code gets my vote. brd is useful for testing things ... and > > sometimes we need to test things that involve partitions. > > > > OK I'm on it, its what I'm doing today. > > rrr I manged to completely trash my vm by doing 'make install' of > util-linux and after reboot it never recovered, I remember that > mount complained about a now missing library and I forgot and rebooted, > that was the end of that. Anyway I installed a new fc20 system wanted > that for a long time over my old fc18 Ah, I'm already working on this as well. :) If you want you can wait for my patches to BRD & test - they should be out this week. I'm planning on adding get_geo() and doing dynamic minors as is done in NVMe. - Ross ????{.n?+???????+%?????ݶ??w??{.n?+????{??G?????{ay?ʇڙ?,j??f???h?????????z_??(?階?ݢj"???m??????G????????????&???~???iO???z??v?^?m???? ????????I?