From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4FE2F51C.1060106@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:19:08 +0800 From: "gnehzuil.lzheng@gmail.com" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rob Landley CC: Sami Kerola , Sami Kerola , Jens Axboe , Bernhard Voelker , Zheng Liu , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, util-linux@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: block: update ioprio.txt References: <1340095897-9014-1-git-send-email-wenqing.lz@taobao.com> <20120619102706.GA9273@gmail.com> <4FE2A825.1060103@landley.net> In-Reply-To: <4FE2A825.1060103@landley.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 06/21/2012 12:50 PM, Rob Landley wrote: > On 06/19/2012 05:27 AM, Zheng Liu wrote: >> Hi Sami, >> >> [You forgot to CC'd other developers and mailing list] >> >> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:54:41AM +0200, Sami Kerola wrote: >>> Hi Zheng, >>> >>> Wouldn't a patch such as below be better? >> >> Looks good to me. But, IMHO, if reader cannot access Internet, my patch >> maybe is better for them. The original writer is not me. So I don't >> understand the original idea that puts ionice source code in here. I >> think that Jens can do the final decision. >> >> Hi Jens, >> >> What's your opintion about Sami's and my patch? > > I note that it's nice to have a reference implementation for nontrivial > things. Also, util-linux isn't the end-all and be-all of linux > userspace: busybox has an ionice, and I plan to add an ionice > implementation to toybox as well. > > So fixing reference code is good. That said, this isn't a "fix", this is > a rewrite adding all sorts of unnecessary complexity > (internationalization? strtos32_or_error() instead of strtol()?) that > makes it much _less_ effective as reference code. OK. I will repost a second version later. Regards, Zheng