Re: [PATCH 1/2] block: export __make_request

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Sep 13 2011 - 17:19:22 EST


On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 08:04:46PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > I really hate naming things different from the method they are
> > implementing. I've tried to figure out what the point of the
> > old blk_make_request is - why would we not go through
> > generic_make_request for this?
> >
> > Boaz, any idea?
>
> I tend to agree, we could rename the existing blk_make_request(). It
> could be blk_make_request_from_bio() or something like that, since
> that's what it does.

It should at very least be renamed. But I still can't figure out what
it is for exactly.

There are three users:

(1) virtio_blk::virtblk_get_id():
This looks like it really should just use blk_rq_map_kern.
(2) osd_initiator::_make_request():
This one looks like it should just use the same scheme as
sg_io(), as it's doing the same thing.
(3) target_core_pscsi::__pscsi_map_SG():
Same as (2).


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