On Fri, Apr 12 2002, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Apr 12 2002, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> > > I believe that there must be some reason for doing that... And
> > > do not ask me why it worked in 2.4.x, as it cleared io_32bit
> > > in task_out_intr too.
> >
> > Because 2.4 doesn't use that path for fs requests. And be glad that it
> > doesn't otherwise _everybody_ would have much worse problems than you
> > are currently seeing.
>
> Maybe if everyone ever bothered to look at the code base and not assume
> they know everything ... and enjoying feable attempts to cast me as a
> fool. Better yet maybe understand the hardware ...
I didn't talk about the 32bit issue at all (as you can read from my mail
above), I simply said why it worked in 2.4 -- because that data path is
never hit for a file system request.
So maybe if you ever bothered to read the emails. Or better yet, not
assume you know everything.
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