Re: Poor floppy performance in kernel 2.4.10

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Sun, 28 Oct 2001 16:42:50 -0500 (EST)


On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Alain Knaff wrote:

> Appended to this mail is the "long live the struct block_device"
> patch. It includes the stuff covered in the last patch as well. The
> issue of stopping transfers in progress is not yet addressed.

Actually, both issues are not addressed. With your patch bdev will
happily live after rmmod. Please, wait a bit with that stuff. I'll
post a variant tonight - still need to verify that it deals correctly
with cases like SCSI (disk going away without unregister_blkdev()).

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