Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: 2.1.118 Tons of oopes | Date | Thu, 27 Aug 1998 15:22:52 +0100 (BST) |
| |
> > This is a development tree. It doesnt have a stable binary API, now instead > > of bitching how about saying "nice Linus thank you for stopping NFS from > > losing data without an error message on NFS file closes" ? > > Let me repeat: I don't care about the binary API. I care about the > source API. And that was broken and I haven't seen a reason that > explains just *how* breaking source compatibility conferred some > benefit.
Read my paragraph above and fs/nfs/*.c and you'll understand why the flush entry point is needed. I'm kind of attached to my mailbox so I happen to think its fine
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.altern.org/andrebalsa/doc/lkml-faq.html
| |