linux-kernel - Re: What still uses the block layer?

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Date:	Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:24:32 -0400
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...elEye.com>
To:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
Cc:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <axboe@...e.de>,
	Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@...ibm.com>,
	Nick Piggin <piggin@...erone.com.au>
Subject: Re: What still uses the block layer?

On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 16:05 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 08:11:21PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> > My impression from asking questions on the linux-scsi mailing list is that the 
> > scsi upper/middle/lower layers doesn't use the block layer described in 
> > Documentation/block/*.
> 
> Entirely incorrect.

OK, right ... could we please get a sense of decorum back on this list.

Rob, if you didn't ask your alleged questions in such a pejorative
manner, we'd get a lot further; and Matthew, if you didn't rise to the
bait so spectacularly it wouldn't prolong these threads.

Really, both of you, I have better things to do with my time than
mediate behaviours that should have been educated out of you in the
kindergarten sand pit.

James

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