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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/42] v5: separate operations from flags in the bio/request structs
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    On 04/13/2016 09:35 PM, mchristi@redhat.com wrote:
    > The following patches begin to cleanup the request->cmd_flags and
    > bio->bi_rw mess. We currently use cmd_flags to specify the operation,
    > attributes and state of the request. For bi_rw we use it for similar
    > info and also the priority but then also have another bi_flags field
    > for state. At some point, we abused them so much we just made cmd_flags
    > 64 bits, so we could add more.
    >
    > The following patches seperate the operation (read, write discard,
    > flush, etc) from cmd_flags/bi_rw.
    >
    > This patchset was made against linux-next from today April 13
    > (git tag next-20160413).
    >
    > I put a git tree here:
    > https://github.com/mikechristie/linux-kernel.git
    > The patches are in the op branch.
    >
    A round of applause for you.

    For the entire series:

    Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>

    Cheers,

    Hannes
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