Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Nov 2004 11:53:38 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.10-rc1-mm4 |
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Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 09 2004, Andrew Morton wrote: > > +blk_sync_queue-updates.patch > > > > update an update to the md updates > > I still don't think this is a good general export, it has very > specialized use. For example, from the description it looks like this > can be generally used on any block device and when it returns, we have > synced the queue. This simply isn't true, there are absolutely no > guarentees of that nature unless the block driver itself implements the > __make_request() functionality and has taken proper precautions to > prevent this already.
True. So what do we do? Grit our teeth and move it into MD? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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