[PATCH 1/5] blk-mq: update ->init_request and ->exit_request prototypes

[Jens Axboe]

On 04/28/2017 08:19 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 04/28/2017 08:09 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 02:20:21PM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote:
>>> Hi, Christoph,
>>>
>>> Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de> writes:
>>>
>>>> Remove the request_idx parameter, which can't be used safely now that we
>>>> support I/O schedulers with blk-mq.  Except for a superflous check in
>>>> mtip32xx it was unused anyway.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure how your patch builds.  If I look at the mtip32xx driver in
>>> for-4.12/post-merge, I see this:
>>
>> Meh, you're right.  It did build fine when I tested it based on Jens'
>> for-4.12/block + my nvme PR.  But it seems like the post-merge merge
>> branch doesn't have the previous mtip32xxx fix yet that is a prerequisite
>> for this change.  Jens:  any idea why?  I'm getting lost in the maze
>> of branches..
> 
> There are only two branches :-)
> 
> I'll rebase the post-merge one, that's basically just for me to sync. But
> it doesn't help that they are moving apart. I'll do that now. If you can
> review the mtip32xx stuff, then we can have one happy base in post-merge
> that can take further work on top of that.

Actually, I'll leave it as-is, just base things on top of for-next for
now.

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Jens Axboe