On Sat, Apr 15 2000, Alejandro Conty wrote:
> Has the driver to do something new with it or the classical end_request
> will be enought?
You can still get by with INIT_REQUEST and CURRENT, and end them with
end_request just like you used to. It is transparent for simple
block drivers.
> Why have the people changed it?
Having per-device request queues has a lot of advantages.
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