Bug 201229

Summary:	Outdated comment
Product:	Drivers	Reporter:	Anmol Sethi (linuxbugzilla)
Component:	Other	Assignee:	drivers_other
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	low
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	7876320f88802b22d4e2daf7eb027dd14175a0f8	Subsystem:
Regression:	No	Bisected commit-id:

Description Anmol Sethi 2018-09-25 03:14:44 UTC

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/7876320f88802b22d4e2daf7eb027dd14175a0f8/drivers/block/nbd.c#L5

Says

> * Note that you can not swap over this thing, yet. Seems to work but
> * deadlocks sometimes - you can not swap over TCP in general.

But https://nbd.sourceforge.io says

> It was originaly thought that it is impossible to swap over TCP; this turned
> out not to be true. However, to avoid deadlocks, you will need at least Linux
> 3.6.

Therefore the comment in nbd.c needs to be updated.