From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: kenneth.w.chen@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch - make config_max_raw_devices work
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 21:03:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040315210341.707c85dc.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040316023946.GO19737@krispykreme>
Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> wrote:
>
>
> > Badari wrote basically the same patch a couple of months back. I dropped
> > it then, too ;)
> >
> > raw is a deprecated interface and if we keep on adding new features to it,
> > we will never be rid of the thing. If your application requires more than
> > 256 raw devices, please convert it to open the block device directly,
> > passing in the O_DIRECT flag.
>
> We only deprecated this thing on the 4th Feb 2004. I want to see the raw
> driver die but we cant expect apps to change their interfaces in the space
> of a month.
Nobody has complained about the 256-device limit thus far. I fully
expected to lose this one, but I don't think I've bitched about it enough
yet.
> Can we reach a compromise? :)
OK, how about a udelay(10) in each I/O?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-16 5:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-16 0:53 Kenneth Chen
2004-03-16 2:14 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-16 2:39 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-03-16 4:17 ` Kenneth Chen
2004-03-16 5:03 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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