Re: [PATCH] 2.5.67-ac2 direct-IO for IDE taskfile ioctl (0/4)

[Jens Axboe]

On Thu, Apr 24 2003, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > If all the rework against bio_map_user() and friends is needed for other
> > reasons then fine.  But it doesn't seem to be needed for the IDE taskfile
> > ioctl.
> 
> Rework of bio_map_user() and co. is minimal and not needed but otherwise
> I will have to duplicate same code in 4 places. bio_map_user() now does
> allocated bio checking and grabs extra reference to bio which all users of
> old bio_map_user() have to do anyway (and they will probably forgot to).

The bio_map_user() changes look perfectly fine, I'd like to commit those
separately.

rather silly (I mean, who cares?). But the non-allocating nature of
HDIO_DRIVE_TASK is a step in the right direction.

-- 
Jens Axboe