From: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@googlemail.com>
To: <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 22/24] ide-tape: remove misc references to pipelined operation in the comments
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 09:58:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1204361928-30229-23-git-send-email-petkovbb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1204361928-30229-1-git-send-email-petkovbb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
---
drivers/ide/ide-tape.c | 15 ++++-----------
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c b/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
index 9810253..07e08a3 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
@@ -267,9 +267,7 @@ typedef struct ide_tape_obj {
* While polling for DSC we use postponed_rq to postpone the current
* request so that ide.c will be able to service pending requests on the
* other device. Note that at most we will have only one DSC (usually
- * data transfer) request in the device request queue. Additional
- * requests can be queued in our internal pipeline, but they will be
- * visible to ide.c only one at a time.
+ * data transfer) request in the device request queue.
*/
struct request *postponed_rq;
/* The time in which we started polling for DSC */
@@ -309,10 +307,8 @@ typedef struct ide_tape_obj {
* At most, there is only one ide-tape originated data transfer request
* in the device request queue. This allows ide.c to easily service
* requests from the other device when we postpone our active request.
- * In the pipelined operation mode, we use our internal pipeline
- * structure to hold more data requests. The data buffer size is chosen
- * based on the tape's recommendation.
*/
+
/* ptr to the request which is waiting in the device request queue */
struct request *active_data_rq;
/* Data buffer size chosen based on the tape's recommendation */
@@ -1792,8 +1788,7 @@ static int idetape_init_read(ide_drive_t *drive)
}
/*
- * Called from idetape_chrdev_read() to service a character device read request
- * and add read-ahead requests to our pipeline.
+ * Called from idetape_chrdev_read() to service a character device read request.
*/
static int idetape_add_chrdev_read_request(ide_drive_t *drive, int blocks)
{
@@ -2112,8 +2107,7 @@ static int idetape_write_filemark(ide_drive_t *drive)
*
* Note: MTBSF and MTBSFM are not supported when the tape doesn't support
* spacing over filemarks in the reverse direction. In this case, MTFSFM is also
- * usually not supported (it is supported in the rare case in which we crossed
- * the filemark during our read-ahead pipelined operation mode).
+ * usually not supported.
*
* The following commands are currently not supported:
*
@@ -2129,7 +2123,6 @@ static int idetape_mtioctop(ide_drive_t *drive, short mt_op, int mt_count)
debug_log(DBG_ERR, "Handling MTIOCTOP ioctl: mt_op=%d, mt_count=%d\n",
mt_op, mt_count);
- /* Commands which need our pipelined read-ahead stages. */
switch (mt_op) {
case MTFSF:
case MTFSFM:
--
1.5.4.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-01 9:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-01 8:58 [PATCH 00/24] ide-tape: remove pipelined mode operation Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 01/24] ide-tape: remove idetape_pipeline_active() Borislav Petkov
2008-03-02 18:21 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 02/24] ide-tape: remove pipeline-specific code from idetape_add_chrdev_write_request Borislav Petkov
2008-03-02 18:33 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-03-02 21:19 ` Borislav Petkov
2008-03-02 23:16 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-03-03 6:43 ` Borislav Petkov
2008-03-03 22:32 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 03/24] ide-tape: remove pipeline-specific code from idetape_add_chrdev_read_request Borislav Petkov
2008-03-02 18:36 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-03-02 21:28 ` Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 04/24] ide-tape: remove pipeline-specific code from idetape_chrdev_write Borislav Petkov
2008-03-02 18:41 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-03-02 21:31 ` Borislav Petkov
2008-03-02 23:17 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 05/24] ide-tape: cleanup pipeline-specific code from idetape_init_read Borislav Petkov
2008-03-02 18:48 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 06/24] ide-tape: remove unused stage-parameter from idetape_copy_stage_to_user Borislav Petkov
2008-03-02 19:15 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 07/24] ide-tape: remove pipeline-specific code bits from idetape_chrdev_read Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 08/24] ide-tape: remove pipeline-specific code from idetape_space_over_filemarks Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 09/24] ide-tape: remove pipeline-specific code from idetape_mtioctop Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [RFCPATCH 10/24] ide-tape: remove pipeline-specific code from idetape_chrdev_ioctl Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 11/24] ide-tape: remove pipeline-specific code from idetape_blkdev_ioctl Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 12/24] ide-tape: remove idetape_empty_write_pipeline Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 13/24] ide-tape: remove pipeline-specific code from idetape_chrdev_release Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 14/24] ide-tape: remove __idetape_discard_read_pipeline Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 15/24] ide-tape: remove pipeline-specific code from idetape_end_request Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 16/24] ide-tape: remove idetape_calculate_speeds Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 17/24] ide-tape: remove pipeline-specific code from idetape_chrdev_open Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 18/24] ide-tape: remove pipeline-specific code from idetape_setup Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 19/24] ide-tape: remove pipelined mode parameters Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 20/24] ide-tape: remove pipelined mode tape control flags Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 21/24] ide-tape: remove pipeline-specific members from struct ide_tape_obj Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 8:58 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 23/24] ide-tape: remove pipelined mode description from Documentation/ide/ide-tape.txt Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 8:58 ` [PATCH 24/24] ide-tape: remove comments markup " Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 9:55 ` [PATCH 00/24] ide-tape: remove pipelined mode operation Jens Axboe
2008-03-01 15:45 ` Borislav Petkov
2008-03-01 18:36 ` Jens Axboe
2008-03-01 10:20 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-03-01 15:37 ` Borislav Petkov
2008-03-22 16:09 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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