Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:31:37 -0700
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: How to completely disable async fastboot?
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On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:20:32 -0400
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:

> The following commit
> 
> > commit 9710794383ee5008d67f1a6613a4717bf6de47bc
> > Author: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
> > Date:   Sun Mar 15 11:11:44 2009 -0700
> > 
> >     async: remove the temporary (2.6.29) "async is off by default"
> > code
> 
> not only changes a default, it completely removes the ability to turn 
> off async AFAICS.

this is on the request of Andrew and others who want to be able to use
these API's (soon) in an "forced offload" scenario. 

> 
> At present, I need to turn this off to debug boot-time operation.

can you give some details? Maybe I can help suggest things...


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