Hi Chris, > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:linux-mmc- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Ball > Sent: Friday, April 06, 2012 7:24 PM > To: Subhash Jadavani > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: Changing the way MMC block request ends > > Hi Subhash, > > On Fri, Apr 06 2012, Subhash Jadavani wrote: > > I looked into blk_update_bidi_request() function and it mainly updates > > bio's of a request and doesn't look to do any manipulation with > > request queue structure of block device. There are many block drivers > > (SCSI, IDE etc .) other than MMC uses blk_end_request() rather than > > __blk_end_request(). Was there any special reason we are using > > __blk_end_request() in MMC block driver? If there is no specific > > reason, I would like to post a patch which would make MMC driver to use > blk_end_request(). > > It looks like we've been using __blk_end_request() since fd539832c in 2007, > which is as long as we've been using the blk_end_request API. > > I haven't looked into it more closely, but it seems so far like there is no > specific reason, and you should go ahead and post a patch along with your > experimental results. Thanks!
Thanks. Sure, will post the patch along with my test results. Regards, Subhash > > - Chris. > -- > Chris Ball <[email protected]> <http://printf.net/> > One Laptop Per Child > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-mmc" in the > body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at > http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
