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SubjectRe: [patch] block device stacking support, raid-2.3.47-B6
On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Ingo Molnar wrote:

>- renaming ->make_request_fn() to ->logical_volume_fn is both misleading
> and unnecessery.

Note that with my proposal it was make_request_fn to be misleading because
all the code run within the callback had anything to do with the
make_request code.

>i've added the good bits (i hope i found all of them) from Andrea's patch
>as well: the end_io() fix in md.c, the ->make_request() change returning
>IO errors, and avoiding an unnecessery get_queue() in the fast path.

Ok.

> - device resolves recursion internally and returns 0 (future RAID0),
> returns 1 if recursion cannot be resolved internally.

I don't think it worth to handle such case if it costs something for the
other cases. I'll check and test the code on the LVM side soon.

Andrea


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