On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 05:53:39PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> The list doesn't really need dma mapping at that point, the problem here
> is that the driver needs to punt to pio mode because of foo. So calling
> pci/dma_map_* is pointless, since the CPU will have to do the transfer
> anyways. What the driver is really looking for at this point, is a way
> to map the pages in the sglist to a virtual address.

Given that there's quite a few cases of this "problem" it would be nice
to have common helpers for it.  Especially as it's really difficult when
we allow merging of sg list entries

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