Messages in this thread | | | Subject | elevators (was Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel) | From | Nick Piggin <> | Date | Tue, 20 Sep 2005 18:31:02 +1000 |
| |
CC list trimmed.
On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 00:59 -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: > Nick Piggin wrote: > > >On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 23:28 -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: > > > >
> >Well the terminology changed to "io scheduler" now, however the > >residual "elevator" name found in places doesn't cause anyone > >any problems and there isn't much reason to change it other than > >the desire to break things. > > > > > Did you really say that? I mean, come on, can't you at least manage a > "well, it ought to get changed but I am busy with something more > exciting to me". >
In a perfect world maybe it should be changed, however I don't know what out of tree drivers rely on the interface and I really don't care to find out. Simple as that.
> Ask Nate about this after he gets an ok from the customer to disclose > his work. It is not so simple as you claim. >
Nate, I would be very interested to hear about your work if and when you are able to disclose it.
[snip devfs]
Yeah I was just trying to introduce some humour to the thread! Or maybe deflate one flamewar by starting another :)
Nick
-- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com
- 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/
| |