From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/10] remove scsi_request usage from sg and st Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:55:13 +0000 Message-ID: <20051110105513.GA9118@infradead.org> References: <1131444389.23111.56.camel@max> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:61888 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750775AbVKJKzU (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Nov 2005 05:55:20 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1131444389.23111.56.camel@max> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Mike Christie Cc: axboe@suse.de, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 04:06:29AM -0600, Mike Christie wrote: > The following patches, made against scsi-misc, remove the scsi_request > usage from st and sg, do some tiny cleanup on sg, and make sg and st > always perform scatterlist IO. > > I have tested against libata and scsi_debug for disks. There are slight > changes, so someone with a tape device should test the patches, but Kai > since Kai did all the debugging last round I have not made many changes. > We will probably hit many problems with LLDs using low max_hw_sectors, > because they have not been converted to export their real values on the > host template so I think these patches should sit in scsi-misc for a > good deal of time. looks like linus is closing the big merge window for 2.6.15, so we won't be able to get this in fully. What do you thing about getting in the infrastructure at least, that is patches: 1,3,6,7 for 2.6.15 and the rest afterwards, after the max_sectors thing has settled a little?