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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCHSET block#for-2.6.36-post] block: convert to REQ_FLUSH/FUA
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:33:44 +0200
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On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 09:26:27AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> Right ... it was the quickest hack to get around the fact that we expect
> the caller to do error handling for BLOCK_PC requests and none of the
> block discard and barrier code expects to do this.
> 
> Once they all go as REQ_TYPE_FS, this code can be removed.

In current mainline all discard and barrier requests are REQ_TYPE_FS.