ide-tape: remove tape->merge_stage
authorBorislav Petkov <petkovbb@googlemail.com>
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:38:34 +0000 (15:38 +0200)
committerBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:38:34 +0000 (15:38 +0200)
commit077e3bdb9ec34d7cb5751b5be81a4a0f6f0eb5dc
tree69a6666e92a8cf3da482abdebc8a7022740f654c
parent01a63aebe4dcfcbe983c40a475e4650a4ae614de
ide-tape: remove tape->merge_stage

Get rid of the pipeline merge stage but retain the chrdev req caching
functionality by using a merge buffer tape->merge_bh which is flushed in chunks
of several blocks at a time. Also, remove last references to pipelining, e.g.
typedef idetape_stage_s.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
drivers/ide/ide-tape.c