Subject: Re: tape drive instrumentation round 2
To: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
From: Brett Lymn <blymn@baesystems.com.au>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/07/2006 13:41:35 
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 11:58:34AM +0900, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
> 
> i don't see any point to have a "parent" pointer in io_stats or

I put it there so that the stats were linked to the structure that is
referencing them for this reason.

> make {disk,drive}_find return io_stats.
> 

Because then I would have to return a struct disk which is wrong for a
tape drive.

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Brett Lymn