Re: linux-next: manual merge of the block tree with the tree

[Kent Overstreet]

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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