Jan Harkes wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 03:58:58PM +0200, Marcin Dalecki wrote:
>
>>That's actually not true... At least the setting of the
>>request rq->flags is significantly different here and there.
>>However I think but I'm not sure that the fact aht we have rq->special
>>!= NULL here has the hidded side effect that we indeed accomplish the
>>same semantics.
>>
>>
>>>And yes it will be useful to move it to block layer.
>>
>>Done. Just needs testing. I have at least an ZIP parport drive, which
>>allows me to do some basic checks.
>
>
> Ehh, you are testing all those IDE changes with a ZIP drive connected to
> the parallel port? Don't you have any real IDE devices?? I'm sure we can
> all chip in and buy you a drive if you need one.
For Gods sake not! The ZIP drive is a SCSI device. And the change to the
SCSI subsystems involves only trivial code movearound. For this
purpose it should be sufficient to trigger it with the above device.
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