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From: "Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz" <bzolnier@gmail.com>
To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/2] ide-{floppy,tape}: remove request stack
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 20:33:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <58cb370e0808061133l724dc70do834ddcbc128af442@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200808061914.06361.bzolnier@gmail.com>

On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
<bzolnier@gmail.com> wrote:

[...]

> ---
> pc stack can also be removed with a bit of care, we just need sth like:
>
> - add request_sense_pc (request_sense_rq alike)
>
> - dynamically allocate pc-s for blk_{fs,pc}_request() in ide-floppy.c
>  and for REQ_IDETAPE_{READ,WRITE} in ide-tape.c
>
> - add PC_FLAG_DYN for dynamically allocated pc-s
>
> - (the difficult part) figure out where to put freeing of dynamic pc-s
>
> Borislav, AFAIR you had some patches doing dynamic pc/rq-s?
> Maybe it would be possible to dust off just their rq-parts?

Please disregard above comments -- I found a better way to deal with rq stack.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-06 18:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-06 17:14 [PATCH 4/2] ide-{floppy,tape}: remove request stack Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-08-06 18:33 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [this message]
2008-08-06 18:34   ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-08-06 19:38   ` Borislav Petkov

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