Re: [BUG 2.6.17-git] kmem_cache_create: duplicate cache scsi_cmd_cache

Al Viro
2006-05-12T22:28:18Z

On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 03:22:42PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> On Fri, 12 May 2006, Al Viro wrote:
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> > Secondary question: who had resurrected that crap? I distinctly remember
> > killing it off...
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> If you did, I don't think it ever got into the kernel.
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> It was added by Kay Sievers on Nov 3, 2004, according to the old history
> (back then it was in drivers/block/genhd.c, and the function was called
> "block_hotplug()", but apart from renaming the function and moving the
> file, it's recognizably the same.
>
> Of course, you may have killed off an even earlier incarnation..

Ah, right - there was another uevent mess in fs/super.c. Sorry, got them
confused... and that FPOS _is_ back.

gregkh, may I ask why had bdev_uevent() been resurrected?