On Fri, Jul 20 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >
> > Attached are two patches -- one that should fix DAC960 for this new
> > completion scheme, and one that corrects the corrected comment in
> > blkdev.h :-)
>
> No, the correction of the correction is worse.
?
> The paging stuff doesn't use any of this. The paging stuff use the page
> cache lock bit, and always has.
Paging still hits a request, I assumed that's what the (really really)
old comment meant to say.
> The only thing that uses request completion checking are special commands,
> like the initial SCSI spin-up etc (scsi_init_one()).
Sure, and IDE ide_wait etc.
--
Jens Axboe
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