Re: regression: disk error loop (panic?) ide_do_rw_disk-bad:

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 
> I think your analysis is pretty good, however you'd probably want to
> incorporate that direct in ide_end_request().

Ok, that makes sense too.

And yes, the further cleanup would be:

> Better still would be to make __ide_end_request() take a byte count
> instead and use end_that_request_chunk(). Then you can get rid of the
> rounding as well.

and that sounds fine, but is an independent issue and not strictly 
necessary.

Bartlomiej?

		Linus
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