linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/2] block: refactor generic_make

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Message-ID: <20110912150935.GA27453@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:09:35 -0400
From:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, linux-raid@...r.kernel.org,
	dm-devel@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/2] block: refactor generic_make_request

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 09:42:02AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

[..]
> +
>  	/* following loop may be a bit non-obvious, and so deserves some
>  	 * explanation.
>  	 * Before entering the loop, bio->bi_next is NULL (as all callers
> @@ -1557,16 +1561,15 @@ void generic_make_request(struct bio *bi
>  	 * from the top.  In this case we really did just take the bio
>  	 * of the top of the list (no pretending) and so remove it from
>  	 * bio_list, and call into __generic_make_request again.
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^
You got rid of __generic_make_request(). Now above comment has stale
reference to it.

Thanks
Vivek
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