Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753856Ab0LPQmB (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:42:01 -0500 Received: from mail-gw0-f42.google.com ([74.125.83.42]:42094 "EHLO mail-gw0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752059Ab0LPQl6 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:41:58 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4D0A400F.5090608@kernel.dk> References: <1291838262-21274-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> <4D0A3EE1.4050404@kernel.org> <4D0A400F.5090608@kernel.dk> From: Kay Sievers Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:41:42 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] block/SCSI: implement in-kernel disk event handling, take#2 To: Jens Axboe Cc: Tejun Heo , jeff@garzik.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, jack@suse.cz, James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1259 Lines: 33 On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 17:36, Jens Axboe wrote: > On 2010-12-16 17:31, Tejun Heo wrote: >> On 12/08/2010 08:57 PM, Tejun Heo wrote: >>> This is the second take of in-kernel-disk-event patchset which >>> implements in-kernel disk event handling framework and adds support >>> for it to sr and sd.  This is largely to move media presence polling >>> into kernel as userspace implementation turned out to be quite >>> problematic over the years. >> >> Kay, Jens, James, how does this look to you guys? > > I like the concept, this is probably what we should have done all along. > The user space method has been tried and failed. So I was mostly laying > it low waiting for feedback before integrating this. Yeah, it's nice stuff. Userspace works, but can not be made entirely safe. We have (rare) bugs we just can not fix otherwise than disabling polling. > Kay? I want it! :) If you merge it, let me know when you have a tree ready, so I can test the most recent version again. Thanks, Kay -- 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/