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Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote: >> > ->axboe!> > :-)> > The thing wants a rewrite. Ideally the serializing point would be a > special request. The patch is still better than nothing right now, it's > really easy to hang the device with hdparm in -linus since it's > impossible to guess when it is safe to issue tuning actions from user > space. I'm not sure which is worse, really. I've never hung an interface with hdparm, nor seen any reports of it. Making I/O errors deadly rather hurts. Will it happen on all I/O errors, or was this a special case? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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