Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965009AbVITNbA (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 09:31:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965011AbVITNbA (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 09:31:00 -0400 Received: from mail-relay-3.tiscali.it ([213.205.33.43]:9177 "EHLO mail-relay-3.tiscali.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965009AbVITNa7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 09:30:59 -0400 From: Lorenzo Allegrucci Organization: -ENOENT To: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:30:01 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 Cc: Hans Reiser , Nick Piggin , Alan Cox , thenewme91@gmail.com, Christoph Hellwig , Denis Vlasenko , chriswhite@gentoo.org, lkml , ReiserFS List , Nate Diller References: <200509180934.50789.chriswhite@gentoo.org> <432FC150.9020807@namesys.com> <20050920114253.GL10845@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20050920114253.GL10845@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200509201530.01808.l.allegrucci@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1703 Lines: 42 On Tuesday 20 September 2005 13:42, Jens Axboe wrote: > 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. Why not just rename the kernel option "elevator" to "iosched" ? --- elevator.c 2005-09-20 15:26:19.000000000 +0200 +++ elevator.c.iosched 2005-09-20 15:27:11.000000000 +0200 @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ return 0; } -__setup("elevator=", elevator_setup); +__setup("iosched=", elevator_setup); int elevator_init(request_queue_t *q, char *name) { - 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/