Linus Torvalds wrote: > > The other part of the bio rewrite has been to get rid of another coupling: > the coupling between "struct buffer_head" (which is used for a limited > kind of memory management by a number of filesystems) and the act of > actually just doing IO. > > I used to think that we could just relegate "struct buffer_head" to _be_ > the IO entity, but it turns out to be much easier to just split off the IO > part, which is why you now have a separate "bio" structure for the block > IO part, and the buffer_head stuff uses that to get the work done. >
So... would it be correct to say that there won't be any large changes to the buffer_head concept in 2.5? _______________________________________________ kbuild-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kbuild-devel
