linux-kernel - Re: [patch 2/6] ide: fix ide_kill_rq() for special ide-{floppy,tape} driver requests

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Date:	Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:39:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bzolnier@...il.com
Cc:	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	petkovbb@...il.com, htejun@...il.com
Subject: Re: [patch 2/6] ide: fix ide_kill_rq() for special
 ide-{floppy,tape} driver requests

From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:09:53 +0200

> The obscure reasons is just the fact that both ide-floppy and ide-tape
> had a they own duplicated/buggy request completion routines.
> 
> While they were being unified the whole bunch of similar class of bugs
> were fixed so I agree that there may still be more issues to deal with
> there.

I see, the ->pc_callback() of these things set rq->errors and then
ide_pc_intr() happily overrides whatever was set there, either on it's
own or via ide_complete_rq().

I'll look over this some more while I wait for the testing results
from Borislav.
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