Commit f8db3835 authored by Jan Kara's avatar Jan Kara Committed by Jens Axboe

block: Warn if elevator= parameter is used

With transition to blk-mq, the elevator= kernel argument was removed as
it makes less and less sense with the current variety of devices.  Since
this may surprise some users and there are advices on the Internet that
still suggest to use it, let's at least warn if the parameter is used.
Reviewed-by: default avatarJeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent fa532287
...@@ -831,3 +831,12 @@ struct request *elv_rb_latter_request(struct request_queue *q, ...@@ -831,3 +831,12 @@ struct request *elv_rb_latter_request(struct request_queue *q,
return NULL; return NULL;
} }
EXPORT_SYMBOL(elv_rb_latter_request); EXPORT_SYMBOL(elv_rb_latter_request);
static int __init elevator_setup(char *str)
{
pr_warn("Kernel parameter elevator= does not have any effect anymore.\n"
"Please use sysfs to set IO scheduler for individual devices.\n");
return 1;
}
__setup("elevator=", elevator_setup);
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