Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262169AbVCCUnH (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:43:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262228AbVCCUlG (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:41:06 -0500 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:1944 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262565AbVCCUfJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:35:09 -0500 Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:33:56 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: David Howells Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, davidm@snapgear.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] BDI: Provide backing device capability information Message-Id: <20050303123356.0255f448.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <13844.1109857330@redhat.com> References: <20050302143934.30d191d7.akpm@osdl.org> <20050302090734.5a9895a3.akpm@osdl.org> <9420.1109778627@redhat.com> <31789.1109799287@redhat.com> <20050302135146.2248c7e5.akpm@osdl.org> <13844.1109857330@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 615 Lines: 17 David Howells wrote: > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Yup. In this application the fields are initialised once (usually at > > compile time) and are never modified. > > That's not exactly so. The block layer appears to modify them. See > blk_queue_make_request() in ll_rw_blk.c. > That's a (strangely named) once-off setup thing. - 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/