Re: [PATCH 00/19] BLOCK: Permit block layer to be disabled [try #5]

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Tue Aug 29 2006 - 13:48:46 EST


On Tue, Aug 29 2006, David Howells wrote:
>
> This set of patches permits the block layer to be disabled and removed from
> the compilation such that it doesn't take up any resources on systems that
> don't need it.
>
> This set of patches is against the block git tree.
>
> Changes in [try #5]:
>
> (*) Update to block GIT tree for 2.6.18-rc5.
>
> (*) Make USB_STORAGE depend on SCSI rather than selecting it.
>
> (*) Remove dependencies on BLOCK where there are also dependencies on SCSI.

Any remaining changes? Looks fine to me, although I wonder why you did
not kill the block_sync_page() completely in AFS. Christophs analysis
looked correct to me.

--
Jens Axboe

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