[PATCH] block: add protocol discriminators to requests and queues

2007-08-02 Thread James Bottomley
This looks small and innocuous, but it's actually the beginning of moving the upper layer drivers into block and adding a filtering layer. The idea is that the queue contains a queue_protocol parameter which details what the device actually speaks. The requests are likewise filled in with a

Re: [PATCH] block: add protocol discriminators to requests and queues

2007-08-02 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 12:47:25PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: This looks small and innocuous, but it's actually the beginning of moving the upper layer drivers into block and adding a filtering layer. The idea is that the queue contains a queue_protocol parameter which details what the

Re: [PATCH] block: add protocol discriminators to requests and queues

2007-08-02 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 12:51 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 12:47:25PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: This looks small and innocuous, but it's actually the beginning of moving the upper layer drivers into block and adding a filtering layer. The idea is that the queue