Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Nov 2013 23:39:59 -0800 | From | Kent Overstreet <> | Subject | Re: linux-next: manual merge of the block tree with the tree |
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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.
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