Il 05/08/2014 12:00, Ming Lei ha scritto: >> > >> > I also think that the device emulation has no business in deciding >> > whether the bypass is used (it depends solely on conditions outside of >> > the device) and that leaking the fd number out of raw-posix is wrong. >> > Both of them are layering violations that shouldn't be reintroduced. > Yes, that is right, and I have added comments that the bypass hint will > be moved to block layer completely in future.
Actually, it will never be accepted in the first place. We have told you repeatedly that the bypass as you wrote it is buggy and a layering violation. Paolo