From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: "Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@it.uc3m.es>
Cc: linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: floppy driver 2.6.3 question
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 20:05:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040318190555.GU22234@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200403181811.i2IIB1f18197@oboe.it.uc3m.es>
On Thu, Mar 18 2004, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> > You may use REQ_SPECIAL bit as you see fit, and ->special as well. You
> > don't have to use them together, must do though. However, as I said
> > earlier, if you push these requests on to someone else request queue,
> > you must not fiddle with REQ_SPECIAL and/or ->special. In that case you
> > cannot touch/use more than what the block layer already does.
>
> Well hooray. All seems to be working fine now that I shifted the burden
> to ->special and stopped playing with ->flags (touch wood). Even
> revalidation is working AOK as far as I can tell. I'll reenable that
> read of the first block a-la-floppy to see if it causes some extra magic.
>
> Many thanks!
No problem, I'm happy it worked out for you.
--
Jens Axboe
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-18 19:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-17 20:02 floppy driver 2.6.3 question Peter T. Breuer
2004-03-18 7:14 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-18 8:23 ` Peter T. Breuer
2004-03-18 9:10 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-18 10:05 ` Peter T. Breuer
2004-03-18 11:35 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-18 12:23 ` Peter T. Breuer
2004-03-18 12:28 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-18 13:25 ` Peter T. Breuer
2004-03-18 13:31 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-18 16:06 ` Peter T. Breuer
2004-03-18 16:16 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-18 18:11 ` Peter T. Breuer
2004-03-18 19:05 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
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