linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PATCH] final SCSI updates for 2.6.24 merge window

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Date:	Fri, 8 Feb 2008 00:05:35 -0500
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] final SCSI updates for 2.6.24 merge window

On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 07:11:33PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > Sob.  Can we please merge "Convert SG from nopage to fault"?
> 
> Heh. I just took it directly then.
> 
> I think it's more of a VM patch than a SCSI patch anyway, so I don't think 
> you really should even have tried to push it through the SCSI tree.
> 
> It's not like we ever do the low-level FS changes for VFS issues through 
> the FS maintainers anyway (ie you sent me all those iget/read_inode things 
> directly rather than trying to go through each filesystem). I don't think 
> this is any different, really.

Yes.  For ->faul Nick should just have sent on the whole batch after
giving fs/driver people enough time to review it.
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