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From: Andries Brouwer <aeb@veritas.com>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@chiara.elte.hu>,
	Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: kernel BUG at buffer.c:827 in test12-pre6 and 7
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 13:56:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001209135659.B839@veritas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012082356020.2121-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0012090415330.29053-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0012090415330.29053-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>; from viro@math.psu.edu on Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 05:40:47AM -0500

On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 05:40:47AM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:

> > @@ -1210,7 +1204,6 @@
> [breada()]
> 	Umm... why do we keep it, in the first place? AFAICS the only
> in-tree user is hpfs_map_sector() and it doesn't look like we really
> need it there. OTOH, trimming the buffer.c down is definitely nice.
> Mikulas?

Throw it out. The number of users has diminished over time.
Recently isofs stopped using breada.
The hpfs use was broken, I fixed it a bit some time ago, but
there is nothing against throwing it out altogether, I think.

Andries
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  reply	other threads:[~2000-12-09 13:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-12-07 22:42 kernel BUG at buffer.c:827 in test12-pre6 and 7 Joseph Cheek
2000-12-07 23:14 ` Keith Owens
2000-12-08  0:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-08  1:23   ` Joseph Cheek
2000-12-08  3:03     ` Keith Owens
2000-12-08  2:16   ` Joseph Cheek
2000-12-08  7:27   ` Tom Leete
2000-12-08  9:07 ` David Woodhouse
2000-12-08  9:58   ` [found?] " Alexander Viro
2000-12-08 18:11     ` [PATCH] " Alexander Viro
2000-12-08 18:48       ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-08 19:13         ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-08 19:39           ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-08 19:50             ` Daniel Phillips
2000-12-08 21:17               ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-08 22:30             ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-08 22:42               ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-09  4:59                 ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-09  8:45                   ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-09  8:56                     ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-09 10:40                     ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-09 12:56                       ` Andries Brouwer [this message]
2000-12-09 13:11                         ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-09 21:25                           ` Mikulas Patocka
2000-12-10  1:11                             ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-09 17:28                       ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-09 18:43                         ` Andi Kleen
2000-12-09 14:00                     ` David S. Miller
2000-12-09 15:37           ` David Woodhouse
2000-12-12  0:54 ` [FIXED!] " Joseph Cheek
     [not found] <90rjbg$8eso1$1@fido.engr.sgi.com>
2000-12-08 22:22 ` [PATCH] " Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan

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