Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [topic] Richer internal block API

[Daniel Phillips <d.phillips@partner.samsung.com>]

On 05/29/2014 11:23 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 11:13:25AM -0700, Daniel Phillips wrote:
>> ...I wonder though, why
>> power management is regarded as a summit-worthy topic, but core
>> functionality of the block layer is not.
> power management covers the whole tree, the block layer is "just" the
> block layer.
Power management does not cover more of the tree than the block layer 
plus memory management plus filesystem plus vfs do, all of which are 
impacted, and all of which raise user visible API questions.
>
>>>> Full disclosure dept: I have an agenda. I want to add the equivalent of
>>>> Raidz etc to Tux3 without reimplementing a logical volume manager in the
>>>> filesystem.
>>> Like btrfs is doing?  :)
>>>
>>> greg k-h
>> Not like btrfs is doing, the opposite really.
> Good, post patches then :)
>
> greg k-h
Is that a recommendation to develop a core API extension in a vacuum?

Regards,

Daniel