From: Robert Love <rml@ufl.edu>
To: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] deprecate use of bdflush()
Date: 04 Dec 2002 11:11:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1039018264.1509.3.camel@phantasy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3of82fuy9.fsf@defiant.pm.waw.pl>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-04 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-02 21:21 [PATCH] deprecate use of bdflush() Robert Love
2002-12-02 22:11 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-02 22:26 ` Robert Love
2002-12-03 14:24 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-12-03 17:10 ` Robert Love
2002-12-03 19:05 ` Paul Gortmaker
2002-12-04 1:12 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2002-12-04 16:11 ` Robert Love [this message]
2002-12-04 13:10 ` Daniel Kobras
2002-12-04 16:12 ` Robert Love
2002-12-04 19:29 ` Daniel Kobras
2002-12-05 17:39 ` Bill Davidsen
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