From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
kay.sievers@vrfy.org, folkert@vanheusden.com, jacmet@sunsite.dk,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bdi: register sysfs bdi device only once per queue
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:10:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1225923040.3882.0.camel@macbook.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081105121015.75f497d1.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 12:10 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > Devices which share the same queue, like floppies and mtd devices,
> > > get registered multiple times in the bdi interface, but bdi accounts
> > > only the last registered device of the devices sharing one queue.
> >
> > David, is there any reason the mtd devices do this?
>
> [tap tap - is this thing turned on?]
No particular reason. It's been done that way since the dawn of time,
when it was perfectly normal. Nobody's yet bothered to change that, when
changing the rules.
--
David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-05 22:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-03 15:53 bdi: register sysfs bdi device only once per queue Kay Sievers
2008-11-03 16:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-11-05 20:10 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-05 22:10 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2008-11-05 22:21 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-11-07 14:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
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