block IO errors on i2o disk

I2O subsystem has been broken in mainstream several months ago (after 2.6.18). The following patch from Jens Axboe splits struct request ->flags into two
parts: cmd_type and cmd_flags
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4aff5e2333c9a1609662f2091f55c3f6fffdad36

In i2o layer this patch has replaced flag REQ_SPECIAL by the according cmd_type. However i2o has used REQ_SPECIAL not as command type but as driver-specific flag for the debug purposes. As result all i2o requests have type "special" now, are not processed to the hardware and fail with I/O error:

i2o/hda:<3>Buffer I/O error on device i2o/hda, logical block 0
Buffer I/O error on device i2o/hda, logical block 0 Buffer I/O error on device i2o/hda, logical block 0
unable to read partition table
block-osm: device added (TID: 207): i2o/hda

The following patch removes the extra debug checks without any drawbacks and restores the normal driver's work.

@@ -390,13 +390,6 @@ static int i2o_block_prep_req_fn(struct
 		return BLKPREP_KILL;
 	}
 
-	/* request is already processed by us, so return */
-	if (blk_special_request(req)) {
-		osm_debug("REQ_SPECIAL already set!\n");
-		req->cmd_flags |= REQ_DONTPREP;
-		return BLKPREP_OK;
-	}
-
 	/* connect the i2o_block_request to the request */
 	if (!req->special) {
 		ireq = i2o_block_request_alloc();

@@ -408,11 +401,8 @@ static int i2o_block_prep_req_fn(struct
 		ireq->i2o_blk_dev = i2o_blk_dev;
 		req->special = ireq;
 		ireq->req = req;
-	} else
-		ireq = req->special;
-
+	}
 	/* do not come back here */
-	req->cmd_type = REQ_TYPE_SPECIAL;
 	req->cmd_flags |= REQ_DONTPREP;
 
 	return BLKPREP_OK;