linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHSET] block/SCSI: implement in-kernel disk event handling, take#2

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Message-ID: <20101216170030.GA13585@infradead.org>
Date:	Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:00:30 -0500
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	jeff@...zik.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, axboe@...nel.dk,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	kay.sievers@...y.org, jack@...e.cz,
	James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] block/SCSI: implement in-kernel disk event handling,
 take#2

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 05:31:29PM +0100, 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?

Any chance could could conver all block drivers to the new methods
instead of leaving us with yet another incomplete transition?

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