Well, first, conehead (hey, let's get abusive, it does so much good;
BTW: Linus may have gived you the OK to call him "pinhead", but I
haven't given you permission to abuse me), that isn't what
happens. Most driver writers will just insert NULL.
Secondly, looking at the patch, *ONLY* NFS implements the flush()
method. Every driver just plugs NULL in there. Anybody who even
bothers to look at the patch (to find out what other drivers do rather
than just automatically plugging in NULL) and sees all these NULL
flush() methods will *obviously* plug in NULL.
So your argument doesn't hold water. Unless there is some other hidden
assumption, inserting the flush() method rather than appending it
simply conferred *NO* benefit and generated lots of breakage.
Regards,
Richard....
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