Messages in this thread | | | From | "Ulrich Windl" <> | Date | Mon, 29 Apr 1996 11:02:29 +0200 | Subject | Re: Things to consider before 2.0.0 |
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On 27 Apr 96 at 18:13, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> > These are the things that I believe should be changed before 2.0.0 is > released. I really don't attempt to make patches, because I am not that > good of a coder, and I am not that familiar with the kernel source. I'd > rather let efficient programmers make the patch. > > ============================================================================== > > *** Change the VFS code in ./fs/devices.c: > > > if (!fops->check_media_change(dev)) > > return 0; > > > > printk(KERN_DEBUG "VFS: Disk change detected on device %s\n", > > kdevname(dev)); > > for (i=0 ; i<NR_SUPER ; i++) > > if (super_blocks[i].s_dev == dev) > > This code snippet is located right around line 211. I would recommend > also printing the date/time of the disk change, since this can be logged, > and someone might want to know when disks are changed.
Have you ever noticed that syslogd adds a timestamp to every message?
> > ============================================================================== > > *** Include the latest Fast Pentium memcpy() patch...
Please only as an option.
> > http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/linux.html > > ============================================================================== > > *** Include some kind of CPU/memory quotas, such as in VAX/VMS. > > If this is possible, can someone please give me some pointers, > or information? This would be rather useful. A start could > be the tuner daemon, that runs in user modes adjusts priorites. > I would think it would require kernel hooks to accomplish such > a task, so that is why I post this is the linux-kernel list. > > ============================================================================== > > Thanks... I would appreciate any feedback... > > -- > Jeff Johnson GCS d- s: !a C+++ UA++(+++) P+ L+ > trn@gate.net E---- W+++ N+++(+++++) K- w(+) O(-) > KE4QWX M- V-(--) PS+ PE Y++ PGP+++(+++++) t- > http://www.gate.net/~trn 5 X+++(+++++) R tv+ b++ DI-- D G++ e* !h r y? > Nerdity Test = 66% Hacker Test = 45% > 1024/3397E001 1995/06/10 5B 92 8B 34 84 E9 42 26 DC FB F7 C4 1E 0E 80 29
Ulrich Windl
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