From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vladislav Bolkhovitin Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.25.1] Add scsi_execute_async_fifo() Date: Sun, 04 May 2008 15:48:52 +0400 Message-ID: <481DA2A4.10607@vlnb.net> References: <200805021638.42972.bart.vanassche@gmail.com> <20080502153306.GB7376@infradead.org> <20080502155525.GA16353@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-relay-01.mailcluster.net ([77.221.130.213]:54240 "EHLO mail-relay-01.mailcluster.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755093AbYEDLsZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 May 2008 07:48:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080502155525.GA16353@infradead.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Bart Van Assche , James Bottomley , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, scst-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 05:53:22PM +0200, Bart Van Assche wrote: >> Regarding scsi_execute_async(): I didn't know that this API is on its >> way out. What will it be replaced by, and when ? > > blk_execute_rq/blk_execute_rq_nowait plus the block level helpers built > ontop to build requests. scsi_execute_async() is already a nice and simple helper function on top blk_execute_rq_nowait(). What's the point then to remove it? Do you consider that exposing scsi_execute_async() internals to its users is better? >> Bart. > ---end quoted text--- >