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Date:	Fri, 2 Jul 2010 03:52:48 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
Cc:	James.Bottomley@...e.de, axboe@...nel.dk, hch@....de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] use q->prep_rq_fn for flush requests instead of
 q->prepare_flush_fn()

On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 04:33:23PM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> We could kill q->prepare_flush_fn(). Except for ide, all the users
> just mark flush requests. They can use REQ_FLUSH flag instead. Ide can
> do like SCSI.

Yes, and I think you should go all the way to kill it instead of
keeping both APIs around.  Otherwise the patchset looks good to me.

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