From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756044Ab1ILNib (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:38:31 -0400 Received: from 173-166-109-252-newengland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([173.166.109.252]:37098 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756003Ab1ILNi3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:38:29 -0400 Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:38:26 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Jens Axboe Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bharrosh@panasas.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] block: export __make_request Message-ID: <20110912133826.GA22548@infradead.org> References: <20110911145053.GA28996@infradead.org> <4E6DD7F0.8020903@kernel.dk> <20110912122507.GA12229@infradead.org> <4E6DFA8C.3030400@kernel.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E6DFA8C.3030400@kernel.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 02:26:52PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > What happens to the existing blk_make_request? > > I ended up naming __make_request() blk_queue_bio() instead. I really hate naming things different from the method they are implementing. I've tried to figure out what the point of the old blk_make_request is - why would we not go through generic_make_request for this? Boaz, any idea?