Commit 5bd50dc6 authored by Borislav Petkov's avatar Borislav Petkov Committed by Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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ide-tape: remove misc references to pipelined operation in the comments

parent c0674bf3
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@@ -265,9 +265,7 @@ typedef struct ide_tape_obj {
	 * While polling for DSC we use postponed_rq to postpone the current
	 * request so that ide.c will be able to service pending requests on the
	 * other device. Note that at most we will have only one DSC (usually
	 * data transfer) request in the device request queue. Additional
	 * requests can be queued in our internal pipeline, but they will be
	 * visible to ide.c only one at a time.
	 * data transfer) request in the device request queue.
	 */
	struct request *postponed_rq;
	/* The time in which we started polling for DSC */
@@ -608,10 +606,6 @@ static void __idetape_kfree_stage(idetape_stage_t *stage)
	kfree(stage);
}

/*
 * Finish servicing a request and insert a pending pipeline request into the
 * main device queue.
 */
static int idetape_end_request(ide_drive_t *drive, int uptodate, int nr_sects)
{
	struct request *rq = HWGROUP(drive)->rq;
@@ -1295,8 +1289,6 @@ out:
	return idetape_issue_pc(drive, pc);
}

/* Pipeline related functions */

/*
 * The function below uses __get_free_page to allocate a pipeline stage, along
 * with all the necessary small buffers which together make a buffer of size
@@ -1305,9 +1297,6 @@ out:
 *
 * It returns a pointer to the new allocated stage, or NULL if we can't (or
 * don't want to) allocate a stage.
 *
 * Pipeline stages are optional and are used to increase performance. If we
 * can't allocate them, we'll manage without them.
 */
static idetape_stage_t *__idetape_kmalloc_stage(idetape_tape_t *tape, int full,
						int clear)
@@ -1875,10 +1864,7 @@ static int idetape_init_read(ide_drive_t *drive)
	return 0;
}

/*
 * Called from idetape_chrdev_read() to service a character device read request
 * and add read-ahead requests to our pipeline.
 */
/* called from idetape_chrdev_read() to service a chrdev read request. */
static int idetape_add_chrdev_read_request(ide_drive_t *drive, int blocks)
{
	idetape_tape_t *tape = drive->driver_data;
@@ -2216,8 +2202,7 @@ static int idetape_write_filemark(ide_drive_t *drive)
 *
 * Note: MTBSF and MTBSFM are not supported when the tape doesn't support
 * spacing over filemarks in the reverse direction. In this case, MTFSFM is also
 * usually not supported (it is supported in the rare case in which we crossed
 * the filemark during our read-ahead pipelined operation mode).
 * usually not supported.
 *
 * The following commands are currently not supported:
 *
@@ -2233,7 +2218,6 @@ static int idetape_mtioctop(ide_drive_t *drive, short mt_op, int mt_count)
	debug_log(DBG_ERR, "Handling MTIOCTOP ioctl: mt_op=%d, mt_count=%d\n",
			mt_op, mt_count);

	/* Commands which need our pipelined read-ahead stages. */
	switch (mt_op) {
	case MTFSF:
	case MTFSFM: