Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: bdi: register sysfs bdi device only once per queue | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:10:40 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 12:10 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Devices which share the same queue, like floppies and mtd devices, > > > get registered multiple times in the bdi interface, but bdi accounts > > > only the last registered device of the devices sharing one queue. > > > > David, is there any reason the mtd devices do this? > > [tap tap - is this thing turned on?]
No particular reason. It's been done that way since the dawn of time, when it was perfectly normal. Nobody's yet bothered to change that, when changing the rules.
-- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation
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