Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 12:40:29 +0100
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Nate Diller <nate.diller@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, cmm@us.ibm.com, seelam@cs.utep.edu,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2][RESEND] Default iosched fixes (was: Fall back io scheduler for 2.6.15?)
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On Fri, Jan 20 2006, Nate Diller wrote:
> Jens has decided that allowing the default scheduler to be a module is
> a bug, and should not be allowed under kconfig.  However, I find that
> scenario useful for debugging, and wish for the kernel to be able to
> handle this situation without OOPSing, if I enable such an option in
> the .config directly.  This patch dynamically checks for the presence
> of the compiled-in default, and falls back to no-op, emitting a
> suitable error message, when the default is not available
> 
> Tested for a range of boot options on 2.6.16-rc1-mm2.

NAK, if you find it useful for testing, keep this patch along with the
patch that enables you to config the kernel that way.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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