Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 03 Jan 2014 16:01:47 +0100 | From | Hannes Reinecke <> | Subject | Re: status of block-integrity |
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On 12/22/2013 08:21 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > We have the block integrity code to support DIF/DIX in the the tree for > about 5 and a half years, and we still don't have a single consumer of > it. By normal kernel rules it should never have been merged, or at > least the bitrot long removed. > > Given that we'll have a lot of work to do in this area with block > multiqueue I think it's time to either kill it off for good or make sure > we can actually use and test it.
Which would make an ideal topic for LSF, wouldn't it?
Personally, I doubt it's a good idea to kill it off, but a proper (userland) API for it has been a long time missing.
Cheers,
Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage hare@suse.de +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: J. Hawn, J. Guild, F. Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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