Re: 64-bit capable block device layer

From: Ingo Oeser (ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de)
Date: Thu Mar 08 2001 - 08:18:19 EST

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On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 07:53:23PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Plus compile time options are nasty :-). It would probably make
> bigger sense to completely skip all the merging etc for low end
> machines. I think they already do this for embedded kernels (ie
> removing ll_rw_blk.c and elevator.c). That avoids most of the
> 64-bit arithmetic anyway.

Do you know of any patches to do so?

Thanks and regards

Ingo Oeser

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