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From: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: Roberto Nibali <ratz@drugphish.ch>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question about the ide related ioctl's BLK* in 2.5.7-pre1 kernel
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:12:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C90939E.4070409@evision-ventures.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C9007F5.1000003@drugphish.ch> <3C900A11.55BA4B32@zip.com.au>

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Roberto Nibali wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>What for are BLKRAGET, BLKFRAGET and BLKSECTGET still needed?
>>
> 
> They got collaterally damaged in the IDE "cleanup".  The patch at
> http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/2.5.6/dallocbase-10-readahead.patch
> resurrects them.

This is WRONG. What I did here was just removal of unused code.
They got obsoleted by the BIO infrastructure changes.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-03-14 12:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-14  2:16 Question about the ide related ioctl's BLK* in 2.5.7-pre1 kernel Roberto Nibali
2002-03-14  2:25 ` Andrew Morton
2002-03-14  8:00   ` Roberto Nibali
2002-03-14  8:13     ` Andrew Morton
2002-03-14 12:04       ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-14 20:04         ` Roberto Nibali
2002-03-18 13:28           ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-18 13:34             ` Jens Axboe
2002-03-18 13:43               ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-18 13:51                 ` Jens Axboe
2002-03-14 12:12   ` Martin Dalecki [this message]
2002-03-14 12:43     ` Jeff Garzik
2002-03-14 12:51       ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-14 17:38     ` Andrew Morton

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