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authorNikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>2008-11-24 10:46:29 +0100
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2008-12-29 08:28:43 +0100
commit42364690992e592c05f85c76fda4055820b48c1b (patch)
tree2a5f0c62c4cd096bcab2057077ec870e04872113 /Documentation/block
parentc6a06f707cc29ea3a47588e4d2cd0bdcfa311a7d (diff)
Documentation: remove reference to ll_rw_blk.c and moved drivers/block/elevator.c
The drivers/block/ll_rw_block.c has been split and organized in the block/ directory, and also drivers/block/elevator.c has been moved to the block/ directory. Update Documentation/block/biodoc.txt accordingly Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/block/biodoc.txt6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
index 4dbb8be1c991..3c5434c83daf 100644
--- a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt
@@ -914,7 +914,7 @@ I/O scheduler, a.k.a. elevator, is implemented in two layers. Generic dispatch
queue and specific I/O schedulers. Unless stated otherwise, elevator is used
to refer to both parts and I/O scheduler to specific I/O schedulers.
-Block layer implements generic dispatch queue in ll_rw_blk.c and elevator.c.
+Block layer implements generic dispatch queue in block/*.c.
The generic dispatch queue is responsible for properly ordering barrier
requests, requeueing, handling non-fs requests and all other subtleties.
@@ -926,8 +926,8 @@ be built inside the kernel. Each queue can choose different one and can also
change to another one dynamically.
A block layer call to the i/o scheduler follows the convention elv_xxx(). This
-calls elevator_xxx_fn in the elevator switch (drivers/block/elevator.c). Oh,
-xxx and xxx might not match exactly, but use your imagination. If an elevator
+calls elevator_xxx_fn in the elevator switch (block/elevator.c). Oh, xxx
+and xxx might not match exactly, but use your imagination. If an elevator
doesn't implement a function, the switch does nothing or some minimal house
keeping work.