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Author SHA1 Message Date
David van Moolenbroek
ed007ca416 libbdev: extended version
This version of libbdev support asynchronous communication,
recovery after driver restarts, and retrying of failed transfer
operations.
2011-12-05 16:28:09 +01:00
David van Moolenbroek
db087efac4 VFS/FS: REQ_NEW_DRIVER now provides a label 2011-11-30 19:05:26 +01:00
David van Moolenbroek
af01bda509 libbdev: initial version
The "bdev" library provides basic primitives for file systems to talk
to block device drivers, hiding the details of the underlying protocol
and interaction model.

This version of libbdev is rather basic. It is planned to support the
following features in the long run:

 - asynchronous requests and replies;
 - recovery support for underlying block drivers;
 - retrying of failed I/O requests.

The commit also changes our block-based file systems (mfs, ext2, isofs)
to make use of libbdev.
2011-11-09 14:43:25 +01:00