linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 09/10] ide: don't abuse cmd

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Message-Id: <20170131.111152.1190518672369292507.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Tue, 31 Jan 2017 11:11:52 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     hch@....de
Cc:     axboe@...nel.dk, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/10] ide: don't abuse cmd_type

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 16:57:30 +0100

> Currently the legacy ide driver defines several request types of it's own,
> which is in the way of removing that field entirely.
> 
> Instead add a type field to struct ide_request and use that to distinguish
> the different types of IDE-internal requests.
> 
> It's a bit of a mess, but so is the surrounding code..
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>