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authorMatthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>2007-09-18 19:54:43 -0600
committerJames Bottomley <jejb@mulgrave.localdomain>2007-10-12 14:51:52 -0400
commit12a441622b753684cc73d1c6f225e9ac53e0bf77 (patch)
tree71a2314ae948c0e2697d68a902d6bfbec85e1fc0 /include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h
parent13ba9bcbfd6741e4c01ac5a505888b7b3a6d99da (diff)
[SCSI] Remove ->pid field from scsi_cmnd
The pid field is a duplicate of the serial_number field and has been scheduled for removal for a long time. A few drivers were still using it, so just change them to use serial_number instead. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h')
-rw-r--r--include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h11
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h b/include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h
index 53e170586c26..4fddef727467 100644
--- a/include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h
+++ b/include/scsi/scsi_cmnd.h
@@ -39,14 +39,12 @@ struct scsi_cmnd {
* A SCSI Command is assigned a nonzero serial_number before passed
* to the driver's queue command function. The serial_number is
* cleared when scsi_done is entered indicating that the command
- * has been completed. It currently doesn't have much use other
- * than printk's. Some lldd's use this number for other purposes.
- * It's almost certain that such usages are either incorrect or
- * meaningless. Please kill all usages other than printk's. Also,
- * as this number is always identical to ->pid, please convert
- * printk's to use ->pid, so that we can kill this field.
+ * has been completed. It is a bug for LLDDs to use this number
+ * for purposes other than printk (and even that is only useful
+ * for debugging).
*/
unsigned long serial_number;
+
/*
* This is set to jiffies as it was when the command was first
* allocated. It is used to time how long the command has
@@ -116,7 +114,6 @@ struct scsi_cmnd {
int result; /* Status code from lower level driver */
unsigned char tag; /* SCSI-II queued command tag */
- unsigned long pid; /* Process ID, starts at 0. Unique per host. */
};
extern struct scsi_cmnd *scsi_get_command(struct scsi_device *, gfp_t);