Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Nov 2013 23:44:45 -0800 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: linux-next: manual merge of the block tree with the tree |
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On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 11:39:59PM -0800, Kent Overstreet wrote: > On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 11:33:24PM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > 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. > > What else is blocked on this patch series? Honest question.
From me alone: Support for ecryptfs to not double cache. AIO support for target_core_file.
To replace code in staging: Removal of the lustre-specific loop driver.
And I remember others claiming to want to submit bits, too.
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