Commit 8bb0776b authored by Mauro Carvalho Chehab's avatar Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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docs: block: fix pdf output



Add an extra blank line and use a markup for the enumberated
list, in order to make it possible to build the block book
on pdf format.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
parent 38cbfed2
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@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Notes on the Generic Block Layer Rewrite in Linux 2.5
	here might still be useful.

Notes Written on Jan 15, 2002:

	- Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
	- Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>

@@ -172,8 +173,8 @@ Some new queue property settings:

New queue flags:

	QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER (see 3.2.2)
	QUEUE_FLAG_QUEUED (see 3.2.4)
	- QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER (see 3.2.2)
	- QUEUE_FLAG_QUEUED (see 3.2.4)


ii. High-mem i/o capabilities are now considered the default
@@ -478,7 +479,7 @@ With this multipage bio design:
- Splitting of an i/o request across multiple devices (as in the case of
  lvm or raid) is achieved by cloning the bio (where the clone points to
  the same bi_io_vec array, but with the index and size accordingly modified)
- A linked list of bios is used as before for unrelated merges [*]_ - this
- A linked list of bios is used as before for unrelated merges [#]_ - this
  avoids reallocs and makes independent completions easier to handle.
- Code that traverses the req list can find all the segments of a bio
  by using rq_for_each_segment.  This handles the fact that a request
@@ -489,7 +490,7 @@ With this multipage bio design:
  [TBD: Should preferably also have a bi_voffset and bi_vlen to avoid modifying
  bi_offset an len fields]

.. [*]
.. [#]

	unrelated merges -- a request ends up containing two or more bios that
	didn't originate from the same place.