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

Bart Van Assche Bart.VanAssche at sandisk.com
Thu Apr 20 15:25:12 UTC 2017


On Thu, 2017-04-20 at 16:03 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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.

Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche at sandisk.com>




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