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DateFri, 1 Apr 2005 14:29:42 +0900
FromTejun Heo <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 09/13] scsi: in scsi_prep_fn(), remove bogus comments & clean up
 Hello, James.

On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 12:02:20PM -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 18:08 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > -	 * come up when there is a medium error.  We have to treat
> > -	 * these two cases differently.  We differentiate by looking
> > -	 * at request->cmd, as this tells us the real story.
> > +	 * come up when there is a medium error.
> 
> This comment isn't wrong.  That's exactly what this piece of code:
> 
> 		if (sreq->sr_magic == SCSI_REQ_MAGIC) {
> 
> is all about ... that's how it distinguishes between the two cases.
> 
> The comment is misleading --- what it actually should say is that req-
> >special has different contents depending upon the two cases, so
> rephrasing it to be more accurate would be helpful.

 Yes, it was misleading, even more so with previous REQ_SPECIAL
patches.  I'll rewrite the comment once we resolve the REQ_SPECIAL
issue.

 Thanks.

-- 
tejun

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