Re: [PATCH] queue barrier support

From: Martin Dalecki (dalecki@evision-ventures.com)
Date: Wed Feb 13 2002 - 08:09:05 EST


Jens Axboe wrote:

>Patches attached, comments welcome.
>
>diff -Nru a/include/linux/ide.h b/include/linux/ide.h
>--- a/include/linux/ide.h Wed Feb 13 13:48:25 2002
>+++ b/include/linux/ide.h Wed Feb 13 13:48:25 2002
>@@ -448,6 +448,7 @@
> byte acoustic; /* acoustic management */
> unsigned int failures; /* current failure count */
> unsigned int max_failures; /* maximum allowed failure count */
>+ char special_buf[4]; /* IDE_DRIVE_CMD, free use */
> } ide_drive_t;
>
ide-barrier-1-c1.296:+ memset(drive->special_buf, 0,
sizeof(drive->special_buf));
ide-barrier-1-c1.296:+ flush_rq->buffer = drive->special_buf;
ide-barrier-1-c1.296:+ char special_buf[4]; /*
IDE_DRIVE_CMD, free use */

I just don't see special_buf used anywhere. What is it supposed to be
used for?
Is the intention to make it look like the SCSI code?

>

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