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    SubjectRe: 2.6.10-rc1-mm4
    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?
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