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

[James Bottomley]

On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 17:36 +0100, Jens Axboe 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.

Me too pretty much ... event driven is nice, but it only really works if
the userspace stuff will stop polling ...

James

> Kay?



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