linux-kernel - Re: remove the cmd_type field from struct request

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Date:   Tue, 31 Jan 2017 13:07:01 -0800
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: remove the cmd_type field from struct request

On 01/31/2017 07:57 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Hi Jens,
> 
> this series gets rid of the cmd_type field in struct request and
> instead folds it into the REQ_OP* space.  This reduces the size of
> struct request, and leads to a single op namespace that drivers
> can easily switch on.  Except for the legacy ide driver which has
> a mess of different request types [1] this also nicely cleans up the
> code.
> 
> Note that the patches are on top of the
> 
>     "make SCSI passthrough support optional"
> 
> series I sent out on Saturday.  To make life easier I also have a git
> tree available here:
> 
> 	git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/block.git cmd_type
> 
> 	http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/block.git/shortlog/refs/heads/cmd_type

Looks good to me, applied for 4.11.

-- 
Jens Axboe