Messages in this thread | | | From | Kay Sievers <> | Date | Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:44:59 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCHSET] block/SCSI: implement in-kernel disk event handling, take#2 |
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On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 17:38, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 17:36 +0100, 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. > > Me too pretty much ... event driven is nice, but it only really works if > the userspace stuff will stop polling ...
David Zeuthen and I will take care of it, and leave the devices alone when the kernel tells us it's not needed to poll from userspace.
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