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Subject: Re: [PATCH] deprecate use of bdflush()
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On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:12:42AM -0500, Robert Love wrote:
> There are no flushing parameters in 2.5, and this is a patch for 2.5.

I'm aware of that.  And I'm not opposed to the patch, but I'm opposed to
the notion that sys_bdflush as a whole has been useless for ages.  E.g.
noflushd[1] on 2.4 happily calls it every five seconds.  Count this as a
vote for rate limiting the message, for the benefit of folks switching
between 2.4 and 2.5.

Regards,

Daniel.

[1] Admittedly a bad example as it won't start on 2.5 anyway, but there
    might be similar codes around.
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