[dm-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] blk_end_request: caller change

[Jens Axboe]

On Wed, Jan 10 2007, Kiyoshi Ueda wrote:
> +static int end_request_callback(void *arg)
> +{
> +	struct request *req = (struct request *)arg;
> +
> +	add_disk_randomness(req->rq_disk);
> +	blkdev_dequeue_request(req);
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}

This is bad, don't pass void * around.

> +static int cdrom_newpc_intr_dma_callback(void *arg)
> +{
> +	void **argv = (void **)arg;
> +	struct request *rq = (struct request *)*argv++;
> +	ide_drive_t *drive = (ide_drive_t *)argv++;
> +	spinlock_t *ide_lock = (spinlock_t *)argv;
> +
> +	rq->data_len = 0;
> +
> +	cdrom_newpc_intr_callback_common(rq, drive, ide_lock);
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}

And this is why, down right horrible. The callback should be correctly
typed, pass down a request pointer ALWAYS.

-- 
Jens Axboe