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SubjectRe: [PATCHSET] block/SCSI: implement in-kernel disk event handling, take#2
On 2010-12-16 17:43, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 2010-12-16 17:41, Kay Sievers wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 17:36, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> 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.
>
> OK good, looks like we all agree... I'll queue it up in for-2.6.38
> branch and update for-next to have all that stuff.

Done. It's in for-2.6.38/event-handling, and for-next is update to have
the pending stuff for 2.6.38 in total.

--
Jens Axboe



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