Re: [PATCH 08/17] blkcg: shoot down blkio_groups on elevator switch

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Mon Jan 23 2012 - 15:33:15 EST


On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 02:57:17PM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> It would be good if you add one more part to your series (say part4) to
> make it happen. We probably don't want to get into mess that from kernel
> version A to B we had x behavior, from B to C we broke changed it to y
> and in kernel version D we restored it back to x. User space now go
> figure what kernel version you are running and behave appropriately. For
> distributions supporting these different kernels will become a mess.
>
> So IMHO, if you can keep pol-specific clearing part a separate series
> which gets committed in the same kernel version, would help a lot.

Sure, we're at the beginning of this devel window. I'm fairly sure
we'll have enough time to sort it out before the next merge window.

--
tejun
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