Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 20:02:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 20:02:43 -0500 Received: from chiara.elte.hu ([157.181.150.200]:5643 "HELO chiara.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 20:02:32 -0500 Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 02:01:54 +0100 (CET) From: Ingo Molnar Reply-To: To: "Jeff V. Merkey" Cc: Linus Torvalds , "Stephen C. Tweedie" , Ben LaHaise , Alan Cox , Manfred Spraul , Steve Lord , Linux Kernel List , Subject: Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait In-Reply-To: <20010206185115.A23754@vger.timpanogas.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > I remember Linus asking to try this variable buffer head chaining > thing 512-1024-512 kind of stuff several months back, and mixing them > to see what would happen -- result. About half the drivers break with > it. [...] time to fix them then - instead of rewriting the rest of the kernel ;-) Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/