From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757362Ab2COHna (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2012 03:43:30 -0400 Received: from smtp.ctxuk.citrix.com ([62.200.22.115]:62732 "EHLO SMTP.EU.CITRIX.COM" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753014Ab2COHn2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2012 03:43:28 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.73,589,1325462400"; d="scan'208";a="11308864" Message-ID: <1331797406.13956.20.camel@dagon.hellion.org.uk> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/blkback: Squash the discard support for 'file' and 'phy' type. From: Ian Campbell To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk CC: "axboe@kernel.dk" , "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , Li Dongyang , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "JBeulich@suse.com" Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 07:43:26 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20120314202352.GC6251@phenom.dumpdata.com> References: <1331679128-27646-1-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com> <1331714035.4092.4.camel@dagon.hellion.org.uk> <20120314202352.GC6251@phenom.dumpdata.com> Organization: Citrix Systems, Inc. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.2-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 20:23 +0000, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 08:33:55AM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-03-13 at 22:52 +0000, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > > > The only reason for the distinction was for the special case of > > > 'file' (which is assumed to be loopback device) > > > > Not related to this patch but how feasible would it be to make blkback > > able to cope with files directly? > > Intersting thought. I am not sure... but an interesting thought. Would you > have Daniel's private email? We could email him for thoughts. I'm afraid I don't have any contact info for Daniel these days. Ian.