Get rid of the pipeline merge stage but retain the chrdev req caching
functionality by using a merge buffer tape->merge_bh which is flushed in chunks
of several blocks at a time. Also, remove last references to pipelining, e.g.
typedef idetape_stage_s.
Signed-off-by: NBorislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>