On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 05:54:30PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 05 2001, Heinz J. Mauelshagen wrote:
> > > Where? Calling buffer_IO_error would be ok, but there are no such calls
> > > in 2.4.3. I just stated elsewhere that submit_bh should probably be
> > > clearing the dirty bit, not ll_rw_block, in which case the b_end_io
> > > is fine. But buffer_IO_error is probably more clear. I trust you'll
> > > take care of that part then.
> >
> > Sorry, didn't mention that you need to patch the driver with the recent
> > LVM software in order to get it.
>
> Ah ok, so the b_dev/b_blocknr is all then. Good.
>
> > I've send the patch a while ago to Linus to get it into 2.4.3
> > but he obviously didn't include it (likely because he thought it was too
> > large ;-)
>
> Maybe you're hanging on to fixes and submitting huge chunks of them?
We want to change that, sorry :)
>
> > He didn't comment back to me at all though :-(
> > Maybe this will help.
>
> Two things that usually help -- submit small and often, then resubmit,
> resubmit, resubmit until he takes it or complains loudly :-)
I know, I know, I know ;-)
>
> --
> Jens Axboe
>
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