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Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:10:49 -0700 From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>, Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...il.com>, Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu> Subject: Re: per BDI dirty limit (was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24) On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 11:35:45PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 23:08 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > > All this open-coded attribute stuff should go away and be replaced by: > > bdi_class->dev_attrs = bdi_dev_attrs; > > Otherwise at event time the attributes are not created and stuff hooking > > into the events will not be able to set values. Also, the core will do > > proper add/remove and error handling then. > > ok, that's good to know. someone ought to write a book on how to use all > this... really, even the functions are bare of documentation or > comments. Yes, I know, sorry :( I'm working on cleaning up the apis a lot right now, so hopefully, in a few months things will have settled down. I'm trying to document things as I go, but right now I'm stuck at a much lower level (ksets and friends...) thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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