From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261808AbTEZRLA (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2003 13:11:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261819AbTEZRLA (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2003 13:11:00 -0400 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:24755 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261808AbTEZRK6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 May 2003 13:10:58 -0400 Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 19:24:05 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Jeff Garzik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BK PATCHES] add ata scsi driver Message-ID: <20030526172405.GJ845@suse.de> References: <3ED1B261.8030708@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, May 26 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > What does the block layer need, that it doesn't have now? > > Exactly. I'd _love_ for people to really think about this. In discussion with Jeff, it seems most of what he wants is already there. He just doesn't know it yet :-) Maybe that's my problem as well, maybe the code / comments / doc / whatever is not clear enough. -- Jens Axboe