Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754946Ab0GBH4v (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jul 2010 03:56:51 -0400 Received: from sh.osrg.net ([192.16.179.4]:39633 "EHLO sh.osrg.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751564Ab0GBH4u (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jul 2010 03:56:50 -0400 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 16:56:29 +0900 To: axboe@kernel.dk Cc: hch@infradead.org, fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp, James.Bottomley@suse.de, hch@lst.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] use q->prep_rq_fn for flush requests instead of q->prepare_flush_fn() From: FUJITA Tomonori In-Reply-To: <4C2D9AFF.7010401@kernel.dk> References: <1278056005-25438-1-git-send-email-fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> <20100702075248.GB21266@infradead.org> <4C2D9AFF.7010401@kernel.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20100702165617B.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (sh.osrg.net [192.16.179.4]); Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:56:30 +0900 (JST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 880 Lines: 16 On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:53:35 +0200 Jens Axboe wrote: > On 2010-07-02 09:52, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 04:33:23PM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > >> We could kill q->prepare_flush_fn(). Except for ide, all the users > >> just mark flush requests. They can use REQ_FLUSH flag instead. Ide can > >> do like SCSI. > > > > Yes, and I think you should go all the way to kill it instead of > > keeping both APIs around. Otherwise the patchset looks good to me. > > Fully agree, lets get rid of ->prepare_flush_fn(). Ok, I'll send patches to clean up all the users of prepare_flush_fn() soon. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/