Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait

Jeff V. Merkey
2001-02-07T01:05:12Z

On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 02:01:54AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
>
> > I remember Linus asking to try this variable buffer head chaining
> > thing 512-1024-512 kind of stuff several months back, and mixing them
> > to see what would happen -- result. About half the drivers break with
> > it. [...]
>
> time to fix them then - instead of rewriting the rest of the kernel ;-)
>
> Ingo

I agree.

Jeff