Subject: [PATCH 000 of 4] Change prototype for bi_end_io
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel
Date: 2007-09-27 07:20:01 GMT (1 year, 40 weeks, 1 day, 4 hours and 58 minutes ago)
Hi Jens, here are a few more patches from my set that makes various changes to bio submission and handling. These change the ->bi_end_io prototype so that 1/ no 'size' is passed 2/ there is no return value. The 'size' is not really of interest to any bi_end_io handler in existance. It is really only an internal detail to the "request" handling in ll_rw_blk and lower levels. The return value is completely unused. After these patches, ->bi_end_io is only ever called once per bio. Note that the last patch makes lots and lots of simple changes. I think I have found all the right places, but any recently added device drivers might still be using the old bi_end_io prototype. I'll grep again after these patches are in your tree. That patches are against linux-block as of an hour ago. Thanks, NeilBrown Net result of the 4 patches: 46 files changed, 166 insertions(+), 385 deletions(-) [PATCH 001 of 4] Remove flush_dry_bio_endio [PATCH 002 of 4] Only call bi_end_io once for any bio. [PATCH 003 of 4] Don't decrement bi_size in bio_endio. [PATCH 004 of 4] Drop 'size' argument from bio_endio and bi_end_io.