Re: [PATCH] libata error handling fixes (ATAPI)

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Sat Nov 19 2005 - 08:26:35 EST


On Sat, Nov 19 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 05:06:45PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > This will also allow us to remove ide_do_drive_cmd()
> > and use blk_execute_rq() exclusively.
>
> While we're talking about moving things to generic request-based stuff,
> any chance one of you could look over to convert ide-cd internal request
> submissions to BLOCK_PC? It's the last user of REQ_PC. After that changing
> the CD layer to submit BLOCK_PC commands directly instead of the
> ->packet_command hook would be a logical next step.

Yup, that's clearly the way to go.

--
Jens Axboe

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