On Mon, Feb 06 2006, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > This patch removes the DEPRECATED comment from ll_rw_block(). The function
> > is still in active use and there isn't any real replacement for it.
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Jens Axboe wrote:
> It is still deprecated, so I think the comment should stay. There are
> plenty ways to accomplish what ll_rw_block does (and more efficiently,
> array of bh's is not very nice to say the least) and the buffer_head
> isn't even an io unit anymore.
To clarify, what ways are there? When we need to access the data, use
submit_bh() and when we just want the I/O to be done, generic_make_request()?
Pekka
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