Re: direct-to-BIO for O_DIRECT

From: Matt D. Robinson (yakker@alacritech.com)
Date: Mon Jul 08 2002 - 10:03:24 EST


Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au> writes:
>
> > drivers/md/lvm-snap.c
> > drivers/media/video/video-buf.c
> > drivers/mtd/devices/blkmtd.c
> > drivers/scsi/sg.c
> >
> > the video and mtd drivers seems to be fairly easy to de-kiobufize.
> > I'm aware of one proprietary driver which uses kiobufs. XFS uses
> > kiobufs a little bit - just to map the pages.
>
> lkcd uses it too for its kernel crash dump. I suspect it wouldn't be that
> hard to change.
>

We can remove their use from our 2.5 tree. Not a problem, as
there are other ways to accomplish what we want.

> -Andi

--Matt
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