Re: [patchset 0/4] osd: Stop usage of blk_rq_append_bio

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On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 19:11 +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> On 05/14/2009 06:35 PM, James Bottomley wrote:
> <snip>
> >>
> >> I see that you rebased by now, though I suspect the fc's blk_end_request
> >> call will fail to build if merged with block tree.
> > 
> > Yes, that's the bit we need a postmerge tree for.  It has to build on
> > it's own in scsi-misc, but it's making use of an API Tejun is altering,
> > so the block postmerge has to do the API alteration based on the SCSI
> > tree.
> > 
> 
> Tejun's cleanup is a bit tricky and cross trees wide. It will need to be
> completely postponed to post merge which will be a pity since there are
> so many patches ontop of it in block-next. Unless we want to sacrifice
> the build ability of the tree between block-merge and the fixup to this driver.
> 
> Perhaps you could do a scsi-post-merge tree that has only this driver, already
> with the new needed code?

If necessary.  However, the disadvantage of doing it this way around is
that I have to squash together the two patches (FC transport patch and
the update to tejun's API) otherwise we get a bisection break.

James


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