From: Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>
Organization: Working Overloaded Linux Kernel
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Subject: Re: ->direct_IO API change in current 2.4 BK
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 20:22:35 +0200
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On Wednesday 09 July 2003 20:08, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

Hi Marcelo,

> Ok, right. Well, I dont know why it doesnt happen there. Maybe not enough
> testing?
aehm, I'll bet -aa is tested _alot_ and also -wolk has tons of testers, but 
well, this is a different talk ;)

> Anyway, I'm going to revert the NFS DIRECT IO patch because, as Christoph
> mentioned, breaks the API.
> I except another solution from Trond (maybe ->direct_IO2).
I wonder why you merge such stuff then in the first place, if you agree with 
hch's opinion, that an API should not change in stable kernel series in the 
2nd place? ... Did you temporarly forget it? ;)

ciao, Marc

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