Re: Why does ionice(1) ban the user to set back to 'none' class?

[gnehzuil.lzheng@xxxxxxxxx]

On 06/19/2012 02:40 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:

> That has already been fixed by commit v2.15-45-g5dc9371 more than 2 years ago:
> 
>   Author: Jakob Unterwurzacher <jakobunt@xxxxxxxxx>  2009-01-17 02:38:32
>   Committer: Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>  2009-05-27 23:43:18
> 
> and the change made it into 2.16.
> 
> The current piece of code looks like this:
> 
> 	switch (ioclass) {
> 		case IOPRIO_CLASS_NONE:
> 			if ((set & 1) && !tolerant)
> 				warnx(_("ignoring given class data for none class"));
> 			data = 0;
> 			break;
> 		case IOPRIO_CLASS_RT:
> 		case IOPRIO_CLASS_BE:
> 			break;
> 
> We'are currently at version 2.21.2.

Thanks for pointing out it.  I use ionice(1) in rhel5 and its version is
2.13. :-p

Obviously, Documentation/block/ioprio.txt is out of date.  Later I will
send a patch to fix it.

Regards,
Zheng
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