[Drbd-dev] [PATCH 01/23] block: renumber REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES

Bart Van Assche Bart.VanAssche at sandisk.com
Tue Mar 28 18:12:46 CEST 2017


On Thu, 2017-03-23 at 10:33 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Make life easy for implementations that needs to send a data buffer
> to the device (e.g. SCSI) by numbering it as a data out command.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
> ---
>  include/linux/blk_types.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/blk_types.h b/include/linux/blk_types.h
> index d703acb55d0f..6393c13a6498 100644
> --- a/include/linux/blk_types.h
> +++ b/include/linux/blk_types.h
> @@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ enum req_opf {
>  	/* write the same sector many times */
>  	REQ_OP_WRITE_SAME	= 7,
>  	/* write the zero filled sector many times */
> -	REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES	= 8,
> +	REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES	= 9,
>  
>  	/* SCSI passthrough using struct scsi_request */
>  	REQ_OP_SCSI_IN		= 32,

Hello Christoph,

Since REQ_OP_WRITE_ZEROES was introduced in kernel v4.10, do we need
"Cc: stable" and "Fixes: a6f0788ec2881" tags for this patch?

Thanks,

Bart.


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