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Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 08:03:24 -0700
From: "Matt D. Robinson" <yakker@alacritech.com>
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To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: direct-to-BIO for O_DIRECT
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Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au> writes:
> 
> >       drivers/md/lvm-snap.c
> >       drivers/media/video/video-buf.c
> >       drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c
> >       drivers/scsi/sg.c
> >
> > the video and mtd drivers seems to be fairly easy to de-kiobufize.
> > I'm aware of one proprietary driver which uses kiobufs.  XFS uses
> > kiobufs a little bit - just to map the pages.
> 
> lkcd uses it too for its kernel crash dump. I suspect it wouldn't be that
> hard to change.
> 

We can remove their use from our 2.5 tree.  Not a problem, as
there are other ways to accomplish what we want.

> -Andi

--Matt
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