[PATCH 08/23] scsi: introduce a result field in struct scsi_request

Martin K. Petersen martin.petersen at oracle.com
Wed Apr 19 18:43:00 PDT 2017


Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de> writes:

> This passes on the scsi_cmnd result field to users of passthrough
> requests.  Currently we abuse req->errors for this purpose, but that
> field will go away in its current form.

Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen at oracle.com>

> Note that the old IDE code abuses the errors field in very creative
> ways and stores all kinds of different values in it.  I didn't dare
> to touch this magic, so the abuses are brought forward 1:1.

Really wish we could just obliterate drivers/ide.

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering



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