Re: [PATCH] deprecate use of bdflush()

Robert Love (rml@ufl.edu)
04 Dec 2002 11:11:04 -0500


On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 20:12, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:

> So why don't we print the warning with 2.4 as well?

We should of. Now its too late - we cannot start printing evil warnings
on existing 2.4 systems.

> I don't know if returning -EINVAL (= removing the call completely in 2.5)
> isn't better, though - does it have any compatibility implications?

Right now the call forces a do_exit(), so the application terminates.
If we just returned `-EINVAL' the application might sit around doing
nothing.

Robert Love

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