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

[David Howells]

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.

David
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