On 11/08/2013 01:33 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Btw, I have to state that I very much disagree with dropping the > direct I/O kernel changes, and I also very much disagree with keeping > the immutable iovecs in. > > For the latter I think the immutable iovecs are useful and do want to > see them eventually, but they were merged at the latest possible point > in the merge window and cause breakage all over the tree, so they very > clearly are not ready at this point, and I fear even more breakage if > they do get merged. > > The changes for direct I/O from kernel space have been in for a long > time, and they are blocking multiple consumers of the interface from > getting submitted for about a year now. Even if the guts of the > direct-io code will get a write based on another patchset from Kent > that will go on top of the immutable iovec changes we need the > interfaces now and not another year down the road. Sorry Christoph, I guess I made a rash decision to pull this from linux-next. I underestimated the dependencies others had on this. Stephen, How about you pick this up again for now? Unfortunately, I'm going to be on a cruise next week and basically out of touch after today until a week from Monday. That will give Kent some more time to ponder things before I ask Linus to merge it. Thanks, Sorry for being a hassle. Shaggy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
