On Wed, Jun 25 2008, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:43:50PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 11:34 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 07:26:39PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > > Uhm, but it IS "a blatant layering violation", it's doing things from > > > > the wrong side up :-) > > > > > > That's just "doing things from a spot Jens doesn't approve of". A > > > layering violation would be SCSI knowing how elevators work. > > > > When it was setting particular elevators, it was a layering violation > > (as I said at the time). If it's just setting a seek cost hint, that's > > acceptable. > > You're both being silly. Interacting with a subsystem via its exposed > interfaces is not a layering violation. Dude, get a grip, your line is reasoning is getting silly. By that logic, as long as something is exported you can use it from wherever you want? Uhm right. -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
