linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 002 of 5] Replace bio_data with blk_rq

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Date:	Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:02:55 +0200
From:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To:	NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 002 of 5] Replace bio_data with blk_rq_data

On Thu, Aug 16 2007, NeilBrown wrote:
> 
> Almost every call to bio_data is for the first bio
> in a request.  A future patch will add some accounting
> information to 'struct request' which will need to be
> used to find the start of the request in the bio.
> So replace bio_data with blk_rq_data which takes a 'struct request *'
> 
> The one exception is in dm-emc were using
>    page_address(bio->bi_io_vec[0].bv_page);
> is appropriate.

This (and 3+4) just look like preparatory patches if we want to merge
the full patchset, not bug fixes. I seem to recall you had more bug
fixes or cleanups in your patchset, maybe I was mistaken. So nak for now
for 2-4, I'd apply 5 but it depends on the previous.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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