Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] deprecate use of bdflush() | From | Robert Love <> | Date | 03 Dec 2002 12:10:01 -0500 |
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On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 09:24, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> My take on this is that it's premature. This would be fine in the 2.6.0-rc > series, but the truth is that the majority of 2.5 users boot 2.5 for > testing but run 2.4 for normal use. They aren't going to get rid of > bdflush and this just craps up the logs. At least with the occurrence > limit it will only happen a few times. I would like to see it once only, > myself, as a reminder rather than a nag.
2.4 does not need bdflush, either.
Bdflush the user-space daemon went away a long time ago, ~1995.
Besides, you only see the message once for each daemon that is loaded. So regardless of the rate limiting you probably only see it once on boot.
Robert Love
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