Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Feb 2002 07:42:14 +0100 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: another IDE cleanup: kill duplicated code |
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On Tue, Feb 12 2002, Andre Hedrick wrote: > I just love how the copy of a request has worked its way back into to the > code-base. :-/ I recall Linus stating it was/is a horrid mess.
The copy itself is not the horrid mess, the handling of multi write is what is the horrible mess. Having a private copy to mess with is pretty much a necessity IMO if you want to handle > current_nr_sectors at the time without completing it chunk by chunk.
-- Jens Axboe
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