Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 16:42:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 16:42:24 -0500 Received: from leibniz.math.psu.edu ([146.186.130.2]:28601 "EHLO math.psu.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 16:42:17 -0500 Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 16:42:50 -0500 (EST) From: Alexander Viro To: alain@linux.lu cc: Linus Torvalds , Richard Gooch , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Poor floppy performance in kernel 2.4.10 In-Reply-To: <200110282040.f9SKe6M02113@hitchhiker.org.lu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Alain Knaff wrote: > Appended to this mail is the "long live the struct block_device" > patch. It includes the stuff covered in the last patch as well. The > issue of stopping transfers in progress is not yet addressed. Actually, both issues are not addressed. With your patch bdev will happily live after rmmod. Please, wait a bit with that stuff. I'll post a variant tonight - still need to verify that it deals correctly with cases like SCSI (disk going away without unregister_blkdev()). - 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/