Re: [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 09/13] scsi: in scsi_prep_fn(), remove bogus comments & clean up

From: James Bottomley (James.Bottomley_at_SteelEye.com)
Date: 03/31/05

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    To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
    Date:	Thu, 31 Mar 2005 12:02:20 -0600
    
    

    On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 18:08 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
    > - * come up when there is a medium error. We have to treat
    > - * these two cases differently. We differentiate by looking
    > - * at request->cmd, as this tells us the real story.
    > + * come up when there is a medium error.

    This comment isn't wrong. That's exactly what this piece of code:

                    if (sreq->sr_magic == SCSI_REQ_MAGIC) {

    is all about ... that's how it distinguishes between the two cases.

    The comment is misleading --- what it actually should say is that req-
    >special has different contents depending upon the two cases, so
    rephrasing it to be more accurate would be helpful.

    James

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