On 5/9/07, akpm@linux-foundation.org [off-list ref] wrote:

+/* Jens gave me this nice helper to end all chunks of a request. */
+static void end_entire_request(struct request *req, int uptodate)
+{
+       if (end_that_request_first(req, uptodate, req->hard_nr_sectors))
+               BUG();
+       add_disk_randomness(req->rq_disk);
+       blkdev_dequeue_request(req);
+       end_that_request_last(req, uptodate);
+}

Again, I would prefer this went straight into block/ll_rw_blk.c. Rene
and I am using something similar in the new Mitsumi driver although
one of us has a bug already, we're using req->nr_sectors for this...