Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin

Martin Dalecki
2002-01-31T11:20:55Z

Christoph Hellwig wrote:

>Hi Martin,
>
>In article <3C568C52.2060707@evision-ventures.com> you wrote:
>
>>>One "patch penguin" scales no better than I do. In fact, I will claim
>>>that most of them scale a whole lot worse.
>>>
>>Bla bla bla... Just tell how frequenty do I have to tell the world, that
>>the read_ahead array is a write
>>only variable inside the kernel and therefore not used at
>>all?????!!!!!!!!!!
>>
>
>It IS used. (hint: take a look at fs/hfs/file.c).
>

Right, but the usage there is semantically *invalid*.