Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 12:33:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 12:33:20 -0500 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:63752 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 12:33:20 -0500 Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 12:39:10 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Davidsen To: Robert Love cc: Daniel Kobras , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] deprecate use of bdflush() In-Reply-To: <1039018361.1505.7.camel@phantasy> 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 Content-Length: 1085 Lines: 29 On 4 Dec 2002, Robert Love wrote: > On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 08:10, Daniel Kobras wrote: > > > > Bdflush the user-space daemon went away a long time ago, ~1995. > > > > sys_bdflush() is still usable in 2.4 to tune kupdated's parameters. > > Only func==1 functionality is long gone. > > Right. But the bdflush daemon was gone in 2.4. It's not *gone* it's just moved into the kernel... F UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME COMMAND 1 0 5 1 15 0 0 0 bdflus SW ? 0:00 [bdflush] Clearly it doesn't need the syscall interface, so as long as there's a way to tune useful parameters the interface isn't needed. Don't know why I thought I was doing stuff using that. -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/