From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 06:07:09 +0000 (-0800) Subject: [PATCH] uml ubd driver: convert do_ubd to a boolean variable X-Git-Tag: v2.6.19-rc5~117 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2fe30a34a141c2188ff2cdd670d031088d9c5d20;p=linux-2.6 [PATCH] uml ubd driver: convert do_ubd to a boolean variable do_ubd is actually just a boolean variable - the way it is used currently is a leftover from the old 2.4 block layer, but it is still used; its use is suspicious, but removing it would be too intrusive for now and needs more thinking. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso Cc: Jeff Dike Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c b/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c index 6cd8988e8f..460d669b47 100644 --- a/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c +++ b/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c @@ -112,7 +112,9 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(ubd_io_lock); static DEFINE_MUTEX(ubd_lock); -static void (*do_ubd)(void); +/* XXX - this made sense in 2.4 days, now it's only used as a boolean, and + * probably it doesn't make sense even for that. */ +static int do_ubd; static int ubd_open(struct inode * inode, struct file * filp); static int ubd_release(struct inode * inode, struct file * file); @@ -508,6 +510,7 @@ static inline void ubd_finish(struct request *req, int error) spin_unlock(&ubd_io_lock); } +/* XXX - move this inside ubd_intr. */ /* Called without ubd_io_lock held, and only in interrupt context. */ static void ubd_handler(void) { @@ -515,7 +518,7 @@ static void ubd_handler(void) struct request *rq = elv_next_request(ubd_queue); int n; - do_ubd = NULL; + do_ubd = 0; intr_count++; n = os_read_file(thread_fd, &req, sizeof(req)); if(n != sizeof(req)){ @@ -1043,7 +1046,7 @@ static void do_ubd_request(request_queue_t *q) return; err = prepare_request(req, &io_req); if(!err){ - do_ubd = ubd_handler; + do_ubd = 1; n = os_write_file(thread_fd, (char *) &io_req, sizeof(io_req)); if(n != sizeof(io_req))