Re: per BDI dirty limit (was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.24)

[Greg KH]

On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 11:35:45PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 23:08 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > All this open-coded attribute stuff should go away and be replaced by:
> >   bdi_class->dev_attrs = bdi_dev_attrs;
> > Otherwise at event time the attributes are not created and stuff hooking
> > into the events will not be able to set values. Also, the core will do
> > proper add/remove and error handling then.
> 
> ok, that's good to know. someone ought to write a book on how to use all
> this... really, even the functions are bare of documentation or
> comments.

Yes, I know, sorry :(

I'm working on cleaning up the apis a lot right now, so hopefully, in a
few months things will have settled down.  I'm trying to document things
as I go, but right now I'm stuck at a much lower level (ksets and
friends...)

thanks,

greg k-h
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