Re: can block drivers get non-fs requests?

[Pierre Ossman]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:42:09 +0200
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> You should check in the driver whether the request type is supported. So
> if you can only handle fs requests, you should do a check for
> !blk_fs_request() after elv_next_request() and call
> end_(de)queued_request() appropriately.
> 

So killing off the request with -EOPNOTSUPP is preferred over having a
prepare function and stopping it there?

Rgds
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