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Message-ID: <9ea470500803180405h5ede15eaqa86515058a632e2b@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:05:14 +0100
From: "Boris Petkov" <petkovbb@...glemail.com>
To: "Nikanth Karthikesan" <knikanth@...e.de>
Cc: "Jens Axboe" <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
"Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz" <bzolnier@...il.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ide_cd modifies hard_* members of request
(sorry, forgot to cc all)
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@...e.de> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Despite the warning in blkdev.h, that members of struct request starting
> with hard_* are block layer internals, and no driver should touch them,
> the ide_cd driver seems to fiddle around with it.
>
> Is this reqd, or can this be made to work without the need for this?
>
> If this reqd, why not provide a helper function for that in block layer
> itself, may be, with a warning about usage?
>
> Thanks
> Nikanth Karthikesan
Hi,
the code pieces you're referring to are in there since at least the
first git import of the kernel source (i.e. 2005) aka long time so
Bart/Jens should know that...
--
Regards/Gruß,
Boris
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