James Bottomley wrote: > On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 16:24 -0700, Luben Tuikov wrote: > >>Did someone have a patch or was there a talk >>that SCSI Core is moving towards sending _only_ scatterlists >>down to LLDDs? (effectively BUG_ON(!cmd->use_sg)) > > > Yes, you can already see the beginnings in the -mm tree. > > Jens is maintaining a block tree with this in here: > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-2.6-block.git;a=shortlog;h=rq-map > > And I have a scsi-block-2.6 tree based off this here: > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-block-2.6.git;a=summary > > The missing (and frankly really nasty) pieces are pulling all the sg > handling out of sg and st, but fortunately Mike Christie is working on > that.
James, I haven't looked at what would be involved with the sg driver but it is good to hear Mike C. is working on it. Hopefully scsi_cmnd::buffer and bufflen get _less_ generic names in the process. Doug Gilbert - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
