On Wed, Feb 13 2002, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> 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?
See ide.c:ide_queue_flush_cmd(), I'm only using 1 of the bytes but it
has room for 4 like that is typically used when issuing an ata command
directly. So yes, it is used, I'm not adding stuff for fun :-)
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