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Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 14:18:19 +0100
From: Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: 64-bit capable block device layer
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On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 07:53:23PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Plus compile time options are nasty :-). It would probably make
> bigger sense to completely skip all the merging etc for low end
> machines. I think they already do this for embedded kernels (ie
> removing ll_rw_blk.c and elevator.c). That avoids most of the
> 64-bit arithmetic anyway.

Do you know of any patches to do so?

Thanks and regards

Ingo Oeser
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