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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:59:32 -0700
From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait
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On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 02:01:54AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> 
> > I remember Linus asking to try this variable buffer head chaining
> > thing 512-1024-512 kind of stuff several months back, and mixing them
> > to see what would happen -- result. About half the drivers break with
> > it. [...]
> 
> time to fix them then - instead of rewriting the rest of the kernel ;-)
> 
> 	Ingo

I agree.  

Jeff

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