linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] block updates for 2.6.32-rc

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Message-ID: <20091001092314.GC8018@barkeeper1-xen.linbit>
Date:	Thu, 1 Oct 2009 11:23:14 +0200
From:	Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@...bit.com>
To:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] block updates for 2.6.32-rc

On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 09:05:49AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30 2009, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 07:41:10PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > Hi Linus,
> > > 
> > > This looks huge, but it's mostly a cciss driver update and the addition
> > > of drbd. I would have submitted this before -rc1, but Plumbers got in
> > > the way.
> > 
> > And DRBD is defintively not ready.  Even if people want to merge another
> > duplicate RAID driver including another crappy user interface it has
> > tracing stuff of a form that would let Ingo go beserk and also uses the
> > stupid connector.
> 
> Can we get rid of the connector? Didn't look very closely, but looks
> kinda stuck with it. I killed the tracing bits, agree on that.

Thanks for killing the tracing bits ;)
We might add trace_events at appropriate places later,
once we need them again.

Getting rid of the connector: If we have to, the easiest way for us
would be to switch to genetlink.  I can prepare such a change.

-- 
: Lars Ellenberg
: LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability
: DRBD/HA support and consulting http://www.linbit.com

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