[PATCH 18/23] block: add a error_count field to struct request

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Thu Apr 20 07:03:11 PDT 2017


This is for the legacy floppy and ataflop drivers that currently abuse
->errors for this purpose.  It's stashed away in a union to not grow
the struct size, the other fields are either used by modern drivers
for different purposes or the I/O scheduler before queing the I/O
to drivers.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
---
 include/linux/blkdev.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index e2064ed3c703..a3dcee624de3 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ struct request {
 		struct rb_node rb_node;	/* sort/lookup */
 		struct bio_vec special_vec;
 		void *completion_data;
+		int error_count; /* for legacy drivers, don't use */
 	};
 
 	/*
-- 
2.11.0




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