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[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>
Chuck Ebbert 19 years ago
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block/elevator.c

@@ -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.
  	 */