On Thu, Aug 16 2007, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Thursday August 16, [email protected] wrote:
> > > 2 and 3 are very simple changes that - I think - make it clearer what
> > > is happening.
> >
> > To be honest, I don't see much win in using blk_rq_data() over
> > bio_data() at all. I'd much much rather just see it go away!
> >
>
> Well, as it is always the data at the (current) head of the request...
So is bio_data(bio), and bio_data(rq->bio) is by definition the head of
the request. If anything, you are making it less flexible. Hence my
suggestion to just kill it off completely, it's a long over due cleanup.
--
Jens Axboe
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