On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 17:38, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. ÂThis 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 ... David Zeuthen and I will take care of it, and leave the devices alone when the kernel tells us it's not needed to poll from userspace. Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
