linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 09/14] ide-atapi: use local sense buffer

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Message-ID: <20090512071739.GA24565@liondog.tnic>
Date:	Tue, 12 May 2009 09:17:39 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@...glemail.com>
To:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
Cc:	Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@...glemail.com>,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/14] ide-atapi: use local sense buffer

Hi,

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:32:38PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:

[..]

all done, testing...

> > -	pc->req_xfer = blk_rq_bytes(sense_rq);
> 
> I think that we can remove ->req_xfer now completely, patch #13.5? :)

Well, the trivial thing would be to replace the pc->req_xfer with the
naked number representing the cmd length, which is ugly. I'll think of
something more elegant when merging all those ide_create.*cmd into their
users. As always, I'm open to suggestions, of course :).

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.
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