Re: [PATCH] IDE TCQ #4

Martin Dalecki
2002-04-18T13:42:57Z

Jens Axboe wrote:

>>>>through the request buffer but IDE-CD is passing them through
>>>>request special field... argh!
>>>
>>>
>>>So kill ->special usage in ide-cd and use ->buffer?
>>
>>That's the idea, but the caching code mentioned above
>>is abusing it already in a way I can't grasp wholly immediately.
>
>
> It's most definitely _not_ abusing it, in fact it's a pretty regular
> usage of ->buffer. ide-cd never does highmem I/O, so ->buffer always
> points to the transfer address for a block request.
> cdrom_read_from_buffer() is simply copying data from the internal 2kb
> cache to rq->buffer, eod.

Either way it's ide-floppy doing the abuse then :-(.
I think the best sollution to this is anyway just to remove
the struct packet_command altogeter and just add the required fields
to struct ata_request - makes ata_request bigger but provides much less
pointer tossing as a benefit.

>

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