On Fri, Jun 26 2009, NeilBrown wrote: > On Fri, June 26, 2009 10:50 pm, Jens Axboe wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 26 2009, Neil Brown wrote: > > >> But for now, please please please can we revert the change which made > >> 'queue' appear in md and dm devices, (and loop and ...) and put these > >> generic values somewhere ... generic? > > > > No we cannot, not without a time machine. 2.6.30 is released, so it's > > too late to revert things like that, even if we wanted. > > Drat... for some reason I was thinking that it only came in in 2.6.31-rc. > However it is only documented in ABI/testing, not ABI/stable ... if there > is any value in that distinction, then it should be possible to move it?? The documentation doesn't really matter. The files are there and released, so they cannot go away. > Well, maybe I'm too late. > If I send you a patch to remove all those fields in 'queue' that are not > relevant to md/dm (when the queue is used for an md/dm device) would that > be OK ?? What fields what that be? It's true that things like eg max_hw_sectors_kb isn't strictly correct, but it still makes some sense on pseudo-devices. -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
