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Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 21:59:49 +0100
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Steve Whitehouse <Steve@ChyGwyn.com>, torvalds@transmeta.com,
        pavel@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NBD Cleanup patch and bugfix in ll_rw_blk.c
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On Sun, Feb 25 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 07:57:29PM +0000, Steve Whitehouse wrote:
> > The bug fix in ll_rw_blk.c prevents hangs when using block devices which
> > don't have plugging functions,
> 
> It looks the right fix (better than 2.4.0 that didn't had such bug but
> that was recalling the request_fn at every inserction in the queue).

Indeed, the removal was too quick and forgot private plugs.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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