Re: [patch][rfc] rewrite ramdisk

[Theodore Tso]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 05:47:12PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> +	/*
> +	 * ram device BLKFLSBUF has special semantics, we want to actually
> +	 * release and destroy the ramdisk data.
> +	 */

We won't be able to fix completely this for a while time, but the fact
that BLKFLSBUF has special semantics has always been a major wart.
Could we perhaps create a new ioctl, say RAMDISKDESTORY, and add a
deperecation printk for BLKFLSBUF when passed to the ramdisk?  I doubt
there are many tools that actually take advantage of this wierd aspect
of ramdisks, so hopefully it's something we could remove in a 18
months or so...

							- Ted
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