From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] block,scsi,ide: unify sector and data_len, take#2 Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 18:11:16 +0900 Message-ID: <4A03F734.2020000@kernel.org> References: <1241423927-11871-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> <20090507192427K.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> <20090508110630H.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:53840 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761305AbZEHJNT (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 May 2009 05:13:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090508110630H.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: FUJITA Tomonori Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, bzolnier@gmail.com, petkovbb@googlemail.com, sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com, mike.miller@hp.com, Eric.Moore@lsi.com, stern@rowland.harvard.edu, zaitcev@redhat.com, Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com, sfr@canb.auug.org.au, grant.likely@secretlab.ca, paul.clements@steeleye.com, tim@cyberelk.net, jeremy@xensource.com, adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk, oakad@yahoo.com, dwmw2@infradead.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, ballabio_dario@emc.com, davem@davemloft.net, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com, bharrosh@panasas.com Hello, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > btw, you are still working on the cleanups of the block API, right? The patchset I sent out today was the last large cleanup patchset I had waiting. I think I'm now ready to move onto adding new features. > I also want to see some cleanups of request completion functions a bit > (e.g. we don't need _bidi_ stuff, we have too many completion > functions, etc...). Hmmm... the bidi stuff not being used widely, I didn't pay too much attention to it. What do you have in mind? Can you elaborate a bit? We changed the API a lot anyway so if there's more to do doing it now wouldn't be a bad idea. Thanks. -- tejun