Re: ->direct_IO API change in current 2.4 BK

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
10 Jul 2003 00:43:44 +0100

On Mer, 2003-07-09 at 20:13, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> I applied it because, in my ignorance, I did not noticed it would break
> the stable API.
>
> I applied it because I wanted comments useful from people (Like hch and
> others did).

I'm not sure I see what the fuss is about a slight API change that is
safe since it spews warnings/breaks existing code that isnt fixed. At
least one vendor kernel also has the changed API anyway

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