Re: [PATCH 09/16] initrd: remove the BLKFLSBUF call in handle_initrd

2020-07-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 08:40:31PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 2020-06-15 05:53, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > BLKFLSBUF used to be overloaded for the ramdisk driver to free the whole > > ramdisk, which was completely different behavior compared to all other > > drivers. But this magic overlo

Re: [PATCH 09/16] initrd: remove the BLKFLSBUF call in handle_initrd

2020-07-03 Thread hpa
On July 3, 2020 5:18:48 PM PDT, antlists wrote: >On 03/07/2020 04:40, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> On 2020-06-15 05:53, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >>> BLKFLSBUF used to be overloaded for the ramdisk driver to free the >whole >>> ramdisk, which was completely different behavior compared to all >other >>>

Re: [PATCH 09/16] initrd: remove the BLKFLSBUF call in handle_initrd

2020-07-03 Thread antlists
On 03/07/2020 04:40, H. Peter Anvin wrote: On 2020-06-15 05:53, Christoph Hellwig wrote: BLKFLSBUF used to be overloaded for the ramdisk driver to free the whole ramdisk, which was completely different behavior compared to all other drivers. But this magic overload got removed in commit ff26956

Re: [PATCH 09/16] initrd: remove the BLKFLSBUF call in handle_initrd

2020-07-02 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 2020-06-15 05:53, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > BLKFLSBUF used to be overloaded for the ramdisk driver to free the whole > ramdisk, which was completely different behavior compared to all other > drivers. But this magic overload got removed in commit ff26956875c2 > ("brd: remove support for BLKFLS