Re: [PATCH 05/24] ide-tape: cleanup pipeline-specific code from idetape_init_read

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>]

On Saturday 01 March 2008, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Also, remove idetape_kmalloc_stage() and idetape_add_stage_tail() since they've
> become unused, as a result.

I wonder whether some of these changes should be done before patch #2 or #3?

It could be that it would make patches #2-4 obvious, ie.

> -	if (!test_bit(IDETAPE_FLAG_PIPELINE_ERR, &tape->flags) &&
> -	    tape->nr_stages < max_stages) {
> -		new_stage = idetape_kmalloc_stage(tape);
> -		while (new_stage != NULL) {
> -			new_stage->rq = rq;
> -			idetape_add_stage_tail(drive, new_stage);
> -			if (tape->nr_stages >= max_stages)
> -				break;
> -			new_stage = idetape_kmalloc_stage(tape);
> -		}
> -	}

I can see now that after this change ->first_stage will be always NULL