Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 26 Nov 2001 15:06:37 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Scalable page cache |
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On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > FWIW Al Viro pointed out to me yesterday that block_xxx are really > nothing but helpers... Depending on them doing or not doing certain > things is IMHO ok...
They _are_ helpers, but I was actually _this_ close to removing the kmap/kunmap from them a few weeks ago when we fixed the NFS uses of the same. People should NOT depend on those kinds of subtle internal things.
Linus
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