Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:33:12 -0800 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 08/17] blkcg: shoot down blkio_groups on elevator switch |
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On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 02:57:17PM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote: > It would be good if you add one more part to your series (say part4) to > make it happen. We probably don't want to get into mess that from kernel > version A to B we had x behavior, from B to C we broke changed it to y > and in kernel version D we restored it back to x. User space now go > figure what kernel version you are running and behave appropriately. For > distributions supporting these different kernels will become a mess. > > So IMHO, if you can keep pol-specific clearing part a separate series > which gets committed in the same kernel version, would help a lot.
Sure, we're at the beginning of this devel window. I'm fairly sure we'll have enough time to sort it out before the next merge window.
-- tejun
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