From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rusty Russell Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] sg_ring for scsi Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:26:47 +1100 Message-ID: <200712211426.47896.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> References: <200712201853.48643.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <200712211013.38511.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <20071221112834X.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:57871 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753074AbXLUD0u (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:26:50 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20071221112834X.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: FUJITA Tomonori Cc: davem@davemloft.net, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jens.axboe@oracle.com, dougg@torque.net On Friday 21 December 2007 13:28:34 FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > I'm not sure about chaining the headers (as your sg_ring and > scsi_sgtable do) would simplify LLDs. Have you looked at ips or > qla1280? Not yet, am working my way through the drivers, but I don't expect it will be a simplification to the normal SCSI LLDs. Most of them are mere consumers of sgs... I'm not a SCSI person: I'm patching SCSI because I have to to get my own sg-using code clean :) Hope that clarifies, Rusty.