Re: 2.4.7-pre9..

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Fri, 20 Jul 2001 01:15:19 -0700 (PDT)


On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> Attached are two patches -- one that should fix DAC960 for this new
> completion scheme, and one that corrects the corrected comment in
> blkdev.h :-)

No, the correction of the correction is worse.

The paging stuff doesn't use any of this. The paging stuff use the page
cache lock bit, and always has.

The only thing that uses request completion checking are special commands,
like the initial SCSI spin-up etc (scsi_init_one()).

Linus

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