Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 14:27:50 +0100
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
       Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>,
       Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
       Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
       lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata error handling fixes (ATAPI)
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On Sat, Nov 19 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 05:06:45PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > This will also allow us to remove ide_do_drive_cmd()
> > and use blk_execute_rq() exclusively.
> 
> While we're talking about moving things to generic request-based stuff,
> any chance one of you could look over to convert ide-cd internal request
> submissions to BLOCK_PC?  It's the last user of REQ_PC.  After that changing
> the CD layer to submit BLOCK_PC commands directly instead of the
> ->packet_command hook would be a logical next step.

Yup, that's clearly the way to go.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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