Commit 4c264583 authored Jan 16, 2006 by Chuck Ebbert Committed by Linus Torvalds Jan 16, 2006

[PATCH] elevator=as back-compatibility

As of 2.6.15 you need to use "anticipatory" instead of "as".  Fix that up
so that `elevator=as' still works.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

parent 5aeebe01

block/elevator.c

+7 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -149,6 +149,13 @@ static void elevator_setup_default(void)
		if (!chosen_elevator[0])
		strcpy(chosen_elevator, CONFIG_DEFAULT_IOSCHED);

		/*
		* Be backwards-compatible with previous kernels, so users
		* won't get the wrong elevator.
		*/
		if (!strcmp(chosen_elevator, "as"))
		strcpy(chosen_elevator, "anticipatory");

		/*
		* If the given scheduler is not available, fall back to no-op.
		*/