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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:46:04 -0700
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To: Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Allegrucci <l.allegrucci@gmail.com>, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, thenewme91@gmail.com, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua>, chriswhite@gentoo.org, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, ReiserFS List <reiserfs-list@namesys.com>, Nate Diller <ndiller@namesys.com>

Nikita Danilov wrote:

>Lorenzo Allegrucci <l.allegrucci@gmail.com> writes:
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>>Why not just rename the kernel option "elevator" to "iosched" ?
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>At least update Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt to be consistent,
>but I think kernel boot options are considered to be a part of the "user
>space API" and, as such, cannot be changed that easily.
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>Nikita.
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You could make both names work, and then deprecate "elevator".....