Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964979AbVITLnJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 07:43:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964980AbVITLnI (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 07:43:08 -0400 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:35399 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964979AbVITLnH (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 07:43:07 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:42:54 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Hans Reiser Cc: Nick Piggin , Alan Cox , thenewme91@gmail.com, Christoph Hellwig , Denis Vlasenko , chriswhite@gentoo.org, lkml , ReiserFS List , Nate Diller Subject: Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel Message-ID: <20050920114253.GL10845@suse.de> References: <200509180934.50789.chriswhite@gentoo.org> <200509181321.23211.vda@ilport.com.ua> <20050918102658.GB22210@infradead.org> <1127079524.8932.21.camel@localhost.localdomain> <432E4786.7010001@namesys.com> <432F8D1E.7060300@yahoo.com.au> <432FABFA.9010406@namesys.com> <1127200590.9436.15.camel@npiggin-nld.site> <432FC150.9020807@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <432FC150.9020807@namesys.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1270 Lines: 31 On Tue, Sep 20 2005, Hans Reiser wrote: > >>The name for one. There is no elevator algorithm anywhere in it. There > >>is a least block number first algorithm that was called an elevator, but > >> > >> > > > >Well the terminology changed to "io scheduler" now, however the > >residual "elevator" name found in places doesn't cause anyone > >any problems and there isn't much reason to change it other than > >the desire to break things. > > > > > Did you really say that? I mean, come on, can't you at least manage a > "well, it ought to get changed but I am busy with something more > exciting to me". Seeing as you are the one that is apparently bothered by the misnomer, it follows that you would be the one submitting a patch for this. Not that it would be accepted though, I don't see much point in renaming functions and breaking drivers just because of a slightly bad name. The io schedulers are all called foo-iosched.c, it's only the simple core api that uses the 'elevator' description. -- Jens Axboe - 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/