linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Block driver changes for 3.20

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Date:	Thu, 12 Feb 2015 15:01:03 -0800
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Ronny Hegewald <Ronny.Hegewald@...ine.de>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Block driver changes for 3.20

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Jens Axboe <axboe@...com> wrote:
>
> commit 9269e23496ddd83b974536019cf420520df0ee7f
> Author: Shaohua Li <shli@...com>
> Date:   Fri Jan 23 20:17:59 2015 -0800
>
>     libata: make sata_sil24 use fifo tag allocator
>
>     libata starts using block tag now, we can use BLK_TAG_ALLOC_FIFO to
>     solve the sata_sil24 tag bug.

Ahh, ok. So we should probably just remove the now unused/useless
ATA_FLAG_LOWTAG entirely.

I'll leave my resolution alone, and leave that for Tejun if he cares.

Thanks,

                          Linus
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