linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND 1/2 block#for-linus] bio, fs: update READA and SWRITE to match the corresponding BIO_RW

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Date:	Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:04:56 +0200
From:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
CC:	stable@...nel.org, Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst@...b.net>,
	Bryan Mesich <bryan.mesich@...u.edu>,
	scst-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-raid@...r.kernel.org, dm-devel@...hat.com,
	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 1/2 block#for-linus] bio, fs: update READA and
 SWRITE  to match the corresponding BIO_RW_* bits

On 08/02/2010 04:17 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Aieee... thanks for root causing it Neil.  That was a stupid bug.  I
> knew that READ/WRITE were hardcoded but forgot about READA.  :-(
> Moving BIO_RW_AHEAD back to bit 1 might be a better solution but I'm
> afraid that would cause more confusions downstream.  This patch
> updates READA and SWRITE to match BIO_RW_AHEAD and should also appear
> in -stable releases.  The next patch will create bio_types.h and
> define all constants in terms of BIO_RW_*.

Tejun, care to resend these against for-2.6.36? We can reference
these for the stable backport (at least the first one should go in).

-- 
Jens Axboe

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