From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:16:21 +0200
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On Thu, Aug 24 2006, David Howells wrote:
> 
> Make it possible to disable the block layer.  Not all embedded devices require
> it, some can make do with just JFFS2, NFS, ramfs, etc - none of which require
> the block layer to be present.

Overall, this looks good. It's definitely something that has been talked
about for years (off and on), but nobody ever did. So thanks David!

When you respin this patch, care to do it against the 'block' branch of
the git block repo?

>      (*) The SCSI layer.  As far as I can tell, even SCSI chardevs use the
>      	 block layer to do scheduling.

SCSI uses the queue as the transport even for char devices, so yes you
have to leave all of SCSI behind.

-- 
Jens Axboe