linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 19/19] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #6]

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Message-Id: <1156971999.5787.12.camel@localhost>
Date:	Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:06:39 -0400
From:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, axboe@...nel.dk,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 19/19] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block
	layer [try #6]

On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 12:44 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I think I'll just slam all this in at the first opportunity.  Stuff will
> break, but it will be easy to fix.
> 
> If you try to upissue this patchset I shall be seeking an IP-routable hand
> grenade.
> 
> On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 19:06:34 +0100
> David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:
> 
> > +static inline long blk_congestion_wait(int rw, long timeout)
> > +{
> > +	return timeout;
> > +}
> 
> This function is misnamed and is implemented in the wrong place.  It's not
> really a block thing at all.  If/when/soon NFS starts to implement it and
> call it, things will need to be renamed and reshuffled.

Already done in the NFS git tree. See attached patch.



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