From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] deprecate use of bdflush()
Date: 03 Dec 2002 12:10:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1038935401.994.9.camel@phantasy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1021203091821.5578A-100000@gatekeeper.tmr.com>
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 09:24, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> My take on this is that it's premature. This would be fine in the 2.6.0-rc
> series, but the truth is that the majority of 2.5 users boot 2.5 for
> testing but run 2.4 for normal use. They aren't going to get rid of
> bdflush and this just craps up the logs. At least with the occurrence
> limit it will only happen a few times. I would like to see it once only,
> myself, as a reminder rather than a nag.
2.4 does not need bdflush, either.
Bdflush the user-space daemon went away a long time ago, ~1995.
Besides, you only see the message once for each daemon that is loaded.
So regardless of the rate limiting you probably only see it once on
boot.
Robert Love
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-03 17:15 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 [this message]
2002-12-03 19:05 ` Paul Gortmaker
2002-12-04 1:12 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2002-12-04 16:11 ` Robert Love
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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