From: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.Helsinki.FI>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] block: undeprecate ll_rw_block()
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 09:20:13 +0200 (EET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0602070909370.25555@sbz-30.cs.Helsinki.FI> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060206210705.GC5276@suse.de>
On Mon, Feb 06 2006, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > This patch removes the DEPRECATED comment from ll_rw_block(). The function
> > is still in active use and there isn't any real replacement for it.
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Jens Axboe wrote:
> It is still deprecated, so I think the comment should stay. There are
> plenty ways to accomplish what ll_rw_block does (and more efficiently,
> array of bh's is not very nice to say the least) and the buffer_head
> isn't even an io unit anymore.
To clarify, what ways are there? When we need to access the data, use
submit_bh() and when we just want the I/O to be done, generic_make_request()?
Pekka
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-07 7:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-06 19:36 [RFC/PATCH] block: undeprecate ll_rw_block() Pekka Enberg
2006-02-06 21:07 ` Jens Axboe
2006-02-07 7:20 ` Pekka J Enberg [this message]
2006-02-07 7:41 ` Jens Axboe
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