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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 13:04:38 +0100
From: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>
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To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
CC: Roberto Nibali <ratz@drugphish.ch>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question about the ide related ioctl's BLK* in 2.5.7-pre1 kernel
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Andrew Morton wrote:
> Roberto Nibali wrote:
> 
>>>They got collaterally damaged in the IDE "cleanup".  The patch at
>>>http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/2.5.6/dallocbase-10-readahead.patch
>>>resurrects them.
>>>
>>Oh, I see. I've missed that patch of yours. I certainly enjoyed (maybe
>>much to your grief) the comments in the code :).
>>
> 
> hmm.  I'd better go back and check them then ;)
> 
> 
>>Is GFP_READAHEAD still a wish or did you drop that idea?
>>
> 
> Dropped.  Bad idea.  If we have to do I/O to gather the readahead pages
> then so be it.  That I/O will cluster well, as will the subsequent readahead,
> which is better than giving up on the readahead.
> 
> 
>>AFAICS you only
>>addressed the i386 arch with that patch, do you want the specific arch
>>maintainers to clean up their part when your patch is finished?
>>
> 
> ?  There's nothing arch-specific in any of this...

And there is nothing IDE related either. The code removed
at the time wasn't used!

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