Re: [PATCH 1/2] BDI: Provide backing device capability information

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Mar 03 2005 - 16:00:08 EST


David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Yup. In this application the fields are initialised once (usually at
> > compile time) and are never modified.
>
> That's not exactly so. The block layer appears to modify them. See
> blk_queue_make_request() in ll_rw_blk.c.
>

That's a (strangely named) once-off setup thing.
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