Re: [PATCH 4/2] ide-{floppy,tape}: remove request stack

From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Date: Wed Aug 06 2008 - 14:33:46 EST


On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
<bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[...]

> ---
> pc stack can also be removed with a bit of care, we just need sth like:
>
> - add request_sense_pc (request_sense_rq alike)
>
> - dynamically allocate pc-s for blk_{fs,pc}_request() in ide-floppy.c
> and for REQ_IDETAPE_{READ,WRITE} in ide-tape.c
>
> - add PC_FLAG_DYN for dynamically allocated pc-s
>
> - (the difficult part) figure out where to put freeing of dynamic pc-s
>
> Borislav, AFAIR you had some patches doing dynamic pc/rq-s?
> Maybe it would be possible to dust off just their rq-parts?

Please disregard above comments -- I found a better way to deal with rq stack.
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