Re: bdi: register sysfs bdi device only once per queue

David Woodhouse
2008-11-05T22:11:16Z

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.

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