Re: [PATCH 1/2] block: don't bother checking the data direction for merges

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On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 04:48:15PM +0000, John Garry wrote:
> I tried to check what is meant by "already started", but that comment 
> pre-dates git. And even the code from then does not make it obvious, but I 
> don't want to check further, so:

Back in the bad old days there was a separare prep_fn callback into
the driver to prepare a request while it was still on the scheduler
lists, and that then set a started flag.   In other words the comment
is long obsolete.





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