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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2006-11-04 20:10:55 +0100
committerJames Bottomley <jejb@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com>2006-11-15 14:14:20 -0600
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[SCSI] untangle scsi_prep_fn
I wanted to add some BUG checks to scsi_prep_fn to make sure no one sends us a non-sg command, but this function is a horrible mess. So I decided to detangle the function and document what the valid cases are. While doing that I found that REQ_TYPE_SPECIAL commands aren't used by the SCSI layer anymore and we can get rid of the code handling them. The new structure of scsi_prep_fn is: (1) check if we're allowed to send this command (2) big switch on cmd_type. For the two valid types call into a function to set the command up, else error (3) code to handle error cases Because FS and BLOCK_PC commands are handled entirely separate after the patch this introduces a tiny amount of code duplication. This improves readabiulity though and will help to avoid the bidi command overhead for FS commands so it's a good thing. I've tested this on both sata and mptsas. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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