[PATCH] Kill blk_attempt_remerge()

[BLOCK] Kill blk_attempt_remerge()

It's a broken interface, it's done way too late. And apparently it triggers
slab problems in recent kernels as well (most likely after the generic dispatch
code was merged). So kill it, ide-cd is the only user of it.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
chrisw: backport to 2.6.15 tree
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 24 deletions

diff --git a/block/ll_rw_blk.c b/block/ll_rw_blk.c
index 99c9ca6d5992..bde9c4bfe542 100644
--- a/block/ll_rw_blk.c
+++ b/block/ll_rw_blk.c
@@ -2609,30 +2609,6 @@ static inline int attempt_front_merge(request_queue_t *q, struct request *rq)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-/**
- * blk_attempt_remerge  - attempt to remerge active head with next request
- * @q:    The &request_queue_t belonging to the device
- * @rq:   The head request (usually)
- *
- * Description:
- *    For head-active devices, the queue can easily be unplugged so quickly
- *    that proper merging is not done on the front request. This may hurt
- *    performance greatly for some devices. The block layer cannot safely
- *    do merging on that first request for these queues, but the driver can
- *    call this function and make it happen any way. Only the driver knows
- *    when it is safe to do so.
- **/
-void blk_attempt_remerge(request_queue_t *q, struct request *rq)
-{
-	unsigned long flags;
-
-	spin_lock_irqsave(q->queue_lock, flags);
-	attempt_back_merge(q, rq);
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(q->queue_lock, flags);
-}
-
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_attempt_remerge);
-
 static int __make_request(request_queue_t *q, struct bio *bio)
 {
 	struct request *req;