block: remove struct request buffer member

This was used in the olden days, back when onions were proper
yellow. Basically it mapped to the current buffer to be
transferred. With highmem being added more than a decade ago,
most drivers map pages out of a bio, and rq->buffer isn't
pointing at anything valid.

Convert old style drivers to just use bio_data().

For the discard payload use case, just reference the page
in the bio.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index 86a8df13a5f..eb5e9480389 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -178,7 +178,6 @@ struct request {
 	unsigned short ioprio;
 
 	void *special;		/* opaque pointer available for LLD use */
-	char *buffer;		/* kaddr of the current segment if available */
 
 	int tag;
 	int errors;