Messages in this thread | | | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix rq->flags use in ide-tape.c | Date | Wed, 5 Nov 2003 14:54:27 +0100 |
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On Wednesday 05 of November 2003 13:00, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On Wednesday 05 of November 2003 09:40, Jens Axboe wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 04 2003, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > > > ChangeSet 1.1413, 2003/11/04 08:01:30-08:00, > > > B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl > > > > > > [PATCH] fix rq->flags use in ide-tape.c > > > > > > Noticed by Stuart_Hayes@Dell.com: > > > > Guys, this is _way_ ugly. We definitely dont need more crap in ->flags > > for private driver use, stuff them somewhere else in the rq. rq->cmd[0] > > usage would be a whole lot better. This patch should never have been > > merged. If each and every driver needs 5 private bits in ->flags, > > well... > > Yeah, it is ugly. Using rq->cmd is also ugly as it hides the problem in > ide-tape.c, but if you prefer this way I can clean it up. I just wanted > minimal changes to ide-tape.c to make it working.
Also putting these flags in rq->cmd[0] makes it hard to later convert ide-tape.c to use rq->cmd[] for storing packet commands.
--bartlomiej
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