On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 09:48:21AM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote: > Would make sense to rename blk_get_request() to blk_mq_alloc_request() > and then we have API symmetry. The get/put don't make sense when there > are no references involved. > > But it's a lot of churn for very little reward, which is always kind > of annoying. Especially for the person that has to carry the patches. Let's do the following: - move the initialize_rq_fn call from blk_get_request into blk_mq_alloc_request and make the former a trivial alias for the latter - migrate to the blk_mq_* versions on a per-driver/subsystem basis. The scsi migration depends on the first item above, so it will have to go with that or wait for the next merge window - don't migrate the legacy ide driver, as it is about to be removed and has a huge number of blk_get_request calls
