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Subject: Re: [PATCH] deprecate use of bdflush()
From: Robert Love <rml@ufl.edu>
To: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
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On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 20:12, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:

> So why don't we print the warning with 2.4 as well?

We should of.  Now its too late - we cannot start printing evil warnings
on existing 2.4 systems.

> I don't know if returning -EINVAL (= removing the call completely in 2.5)
> isn't better, though - does it have any compatibility implications?

Right now the call forces a do_exit(), so the application terminates. 
If we just returned `-EINVAL' the application might sit around doing
nothing.

	Robert Love

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