Re: 2.4.7-pre9..

[Jens Axboe]

On Fri, Jul 20 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.

Paging still hits a request, I assumed that's what the (really really)
old comment meant to say.

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

Sure, and IDE ide_wait etc.

-- 
Jens Axboe