Bug 201229 - Outdated comment
Summary: Outdated comment
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Drivers
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Other (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: P1 low
Assignee: drivers_other
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Reported: 2018-09-25 03:14 UTC by Anmol Sethi
Modified: 2018-09-25 03:14 UTC (History)
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Kernel Version: 7876320f88802b22d4e2daf7eb027dd14175a0f8
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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.
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