Russell Cattelan wrote:
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> So if you has actually said something that would suggest you know how
> to program we might have actually considered you a programmer. :-)
> (clever syntax a programmer does not make)
Yet another professional.
Sorry, my drivers don't oops, and do make mount go in D state indefinitely.
Take a look at pagebuf/*.c -- this can definitely be cleaned up.
Don't you agree? (<-- careful what you answer here if your boss knows C)
> Ohh and for the record and to back up what Christoph said your
> interpretation of BH_Dirty is incorrect, his is.
Really? But look:
> > If the buffer should be written out, the dirty bit should be turned on.
> > This makes sense anywhich way you look at it and think about it.
> > This makes sense from 1. the code I've seen in the kernel (md)
> > and from 2. logical point of view and from 3. my old OS course textbook
> > (``the dinosaur book'').
> It makes sense if you let the VM control the write out, but pagebuf
> does the writeout explicit and the bit doesn't matter at all.
So, he *does* say that it makes sense.
Let's just do what makes sense -- that's all I'm saying.
Take a look at the md code (mirroring, 2.4). Don't give me 2.5
as an example (which uses bios) -- it would be a red-herring.
--
Luben
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