Re: [GIT PULL] first round of SCSI updates for the 5.14+ merge window

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Sep 03 2021 - 03:59:20 EST


On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 05:27:26AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 04:23:43PM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> > >
> > > Just checking that was fine, and I notice how *many* places do that.
> > >
> > > Should the blk_execute_rq() function even take that "struct gendisk
> > > *bd_disk" argument at all?
>
> No, it shouldn't. rq->rq_disk should go away and use rq->q->disk
> instead. This has been on my TODO list, but didn't make the cut for
> this merge window.

Here is a quick draft of that:

http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/block.git/shortlog/refs/heads/block-remove-rq_disk