Re: [PATCH] deprecate use of bdflush()

[Andrew Morton]

Robert Love wrote:
> 
> We can never get rid of it if we do not deprecate it - so do so and
> print a stern warning to those who still run bdflush daemons.
> 

Ho-hum.  I was going to do this months ago but general exhaustion
and sluggishness won out.

We should tell the user which process called sys_bdflush() to aid
their expunging efforts.

--- 25/fs/buffer.c~deprecate-bdflush	Mon Dec  2 13:40:44 2002
+++ 25-akpm/fs/buffer.c	Mon Dec  2 13:45:11 2002
@@ -2755,11 +2755,25 @@ int block_sync_page(struct page *page)
 /*
  * There are no bdflush tunables left.  But distributions are
  * still running obsolete flush daemons, so we terminate them here.
+ *
+ * Use of bdflush() is deprecated and will be removed in a future kernel.
+ * The `pdflush' kernel threads fully replace bdflush daemons and this call.
  */
 asmlinkage long sys_bdflush(int func, long data)
 {
+	static int msg_count;
+
 	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
 		return -EPERM;
+
+	if (msg_count < 5) {
+		msg_count++;
+		printk(KERN_INFO
+			"warning: process `%s' used the obsolete bdflush"
+			" system call\nFix your initscripts?\n",
+			current->comm);
+	}
+
 	if (func == 1)
 		do_exit(0);
 	return 0;

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