linux-kernel - Re: [patch 8/9] lguest: the block driver

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Date:	Wed, 9 May 2007 12:29:33 +0200
From:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	"akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, virtualization@...ts.osdl.org,
	rusty@...tcorp.com.au, ak@...e.de,
	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 8/9] lguest: the block driver

On Wed, May 09 2007, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On 5/9/07, akpm@...ux-foundation.org <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >+/* Jens gave me this nice helper to end all chunks of a request. */
> >+static void end_entire_request(struct request *req, int uptodate)
> >+{
> >+       if (end_that_request_first(req, uptodate, req->hard_nr_sectors))
> >+               BUG();
> >+       add_disk_randomness(req->rq_disk);
> >+       blkdev_dequeue_request(req);
> >+       end_that_request_last(req, uptodate);
> >+}
> 
> Again, I would prefer this went straight into block/ll_rw_blk.c. Rene
> and I am using something similar in the new Mitsumi driver although
> one of us has a bug already, we're using req->nr_sectors for this...

Lets do it after it is merged, as not to create a hold-up point for
lguest. Once it's in, I'll fix it up.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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