From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>,
SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 09/13] scsi: in scsi_prep_fn(), remove bogus comments & clean up
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 12:02:20 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1112292140.5619.26.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050331090647.B562915C@htj.dyndns.org>
On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 18:08 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> - * come up when there is a medium error. We have to treat
> - * these two cases differently. We differentiate by looking
> - * at request->cmd, as this tells us the real story.
> + * come up when there is a medium error.
This comment isn't wrong. That's exactly what this piece of code:
if (sreq->sr_magic == SCSI_REQ_MAGIC) {
is all about ... that's how it distinguishes between the two cases.
The comment is misleading --- what it actually should say is that req-
>special has different contents depending upon the two cases, so
rephrasing it to be more accurate would be helpful.
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-31 18:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-31 9:07 [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 00/13] scsi: scsi_request_fn() rewrite & stuff Tejun Heo
2005-03-31 9:07 ` [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 01/13] scsi: don't use blk_insert_request() for requeueing Tejun Heo
2005-03-31 10:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-04-01 4:18 ` Tejun Heo
2005-03-31 17:53 ` James Bottomley
2005-04-01 5:01 ` Tejun Heo
2005-04-01 18:09 ` James Bottomley
2005-04-01 22:21 ` Tejun Heo
2005-03-31 9:08 ` [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 02/13] scsi: don't turn on REQ_SPECIAL on sgtable allocation failure Tejun Heo
2005-03-31 17:53 ` James Bottomley
2005-04-01 5:14 ` Tejun Heo
2005-03-31 9:08 ` [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 03/13] scsi: remove unused scsi_cmnd->internal_timeout field Tejun Heo
2005-03-31 9:08 ` [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 04/13] scsi: remove meaningless volatile qualifiers from structure definitions Tejun Heo
2005-03-31 10:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-04-01 5:15 ` Tejun Heo
2005-03-31 9:08 ` [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 05/13] scsi: remove a timer race from scsi_queue_insert() and cleanup timer Tejun Heo
2005-03-31 10:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-04-01 5:15 ` Tejun Heo
2005-03-31 9:08 ` [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 06/13] scsi: remove meaningless scsi_cmnd->serial_number_at_timeout field Tejun Heo
2005-03-31 9:08 ` [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 07/13] scsi: move error handling out of scsi_init_io() into scsi_prep_fn() Tejun Heo
2005-04-01 18:23 ` James Bottomley
2005-04-01 23:07 ` Tejun Heo
2005-03-31 9:08 ` [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 08/13] scsi: move request preps in other places into prep_fn() Tejun Heo
2005-03-31 10:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-04-01 5:20 ` Tejun Heo
2005-03-31 18:07 ` James Bottomley
2005-04-01 5:25 ` Tejun Heo
2005-04-04 18:39 ` James Bottomley
2005-04-05 6:19 ` Tejun Heo
2005-04-05 14:20 ` James Bottomley
2005-03-31 9:08 ` [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 09/13] scsi: in scsi_prep_fn(), remove bogus comments & clean up Tejun Heo
2005-03-31 10:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-03-31 18:02 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2005-04-01 5:29 ` Tejun Heo
2005-03-31 9:08 ` [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 10/13] scsi: rewrite scsi_request_fn() Tejun Heo
2005-03-31 11:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-04-01 5:44 ` Tejun Heo
2005-03-31 9:08 ` [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 11/13] scsi: add reprep arg to scsi_requeue_command() and make it public Tejun Heo
2005-03-31 10:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-04-01 5:35 ` Tejun Heo
2005-03-31 9:08 ` [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 12/13] scsi: replace scsi_queue_insert() with scsi_requeue_command() Tejun Heo
2005-03-31 9:08 ` [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 13/13] scsi: consolidate scsi_cmd_retry() calls in scsi_error.c Tejun Heo
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