> -----Original Message----- > From: Jan Beulich [mailto:jbeul...@suse.com] > Sent: 27 October 2016 12:38 > To: xen-devel <xen-de...@lists.xenproject.org> > Cc: Paul Durrant <paul.durr...@citrix.com> > Subject: purpose of struct buf_ioreq's dir field > > Hello, > > can anyone shed some light on the purpose of that field? Since > buffered ioreq-s by their nature don't have any response, I don't > see what good they can be for when not doing writes. >
Indeed. I don't know what it's there for. Keir created the struct in 3ed09ac1 and I guess he just did a rough clone of the existent ioreq struct . Paul > Thanks, Jan _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
