Re: [PATCH 1/2] BDI: Provide backing device capability information [try #3]

From: David Howells
Date: Wed Mar 09 2005 - 05:34:11 EST



Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > The attached patch replaces backing_dev_info::memory_backed with
> > capabilitied bitmap.
>
> Looks sane to me, thanks.
>
> I hope you got all the conversions correct - breakage in the writeback
> dirty accounting manifests in subtle ways. I'll double-check it.

I think I got the logic as-was. This is quite easy to check just by looking at
the patch. However, the as-was logic should possibly be changed to reflect the
fact that the one control that there was has now been split into two.

David
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