On Tue, Feb 12 2002, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> I just love how the copy of a request has worked its way back into to the
> code-base. :-/ I recall Linus stating it was/is a horrid mess.
The copy itself is not the horrid mess, the handling of multi write is
what is the horrible mess. Having a private copy to mess with is pretty
much a necessity IMO if you want to handle > current_nr_sectors at the
time without completing it chunk by chunk.
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