Re: floppy driver 2.6.3 question

[Jens Axboe]

On Thu, Mar 18 2004, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> > You may use REQ_SPECIAL bit as you see fit, and ->special as well. You
> > don't have to use them together, must do though. However, as I said
> > earlier, if you push these requests on to someone else request queue,
> > you must not fiddle with REQ_SPECIAL and/or ->special. In that case you
> > cannot touch/use more than what the block layer already does.
> 
> Well hooray. All seems to be working fine now that I shifted the burden
> to ->special and stopped playing with ->flags (touch wood). Even
> revalidation is working AOK as far as I can tell. I'll reenable that
> read of the first block a-la-floppy to see if it causes some extra magic.
> 
> Many thanks!

No problem, I'm happy it worked out for you.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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