Re: 2.5.6: ide driver broken in PIO mode

[Jens Axboe]

On Thu, Mar 14 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Suparna Bhattacharya wrote:
> > 
> > ...
> > However, the latest code I have also covers the avoidance of bv_len,
> > bv_offset modifications by the block layer, which I'd been
> > concerned about for quite a while and ought to have done something about
> > much sooner ;)
> 
> urgh.  I didn't know there was a risk of this.
> 
> I'm using bv_offset and bv_len in the bi_end_io handler to work out
> whether to unlock the final page in the multipage BIO.
> 
> That can probably be avoided, but it would be better if these
> can be left alone, or at least, restored to their original value
> before returning the BIO to whoever created it.

Suparna's addition will be added, so we maintain the same length and
offset throughout.

> I'm also using bi_private, under the assumption that the ownership
> rules for that are analogous to buffer_head.b_private.   Is this
> correct?   Who owns bi_private?

Same semantics as b_priate, so don't worry :)

-- 
Jens Axboe