From: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
To: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC/RFT 3/4] convert sg
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 22:10:02 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4329649A.6000406@torque.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1126736390.16778.26.camel@max>
Mike Christie wrote:
> Convert sg to always to scatterlist IO.
>
> This is not the complete cleanup I wanted to do, but nothing should
> be broken like in my past patches. st and osst can be converted to
> use the same interface. Eventually, I would like to convert them
> to use the blk_rq_map_user* functions but becuase of the
> large requests and them reserving the buffers themselves, and
> sg's mmap code I coverted them to use the map_kern_iov function
> first.
Thanks for keeping the sg driver's feature set. I'll
start testing, ironically mostly on SATA disks :-)
Doug Gilbert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-15 12:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-14 22:19 [PATCH RFC/RFT 3/4] convert sg Mike Christie
2005-09-15 12:10 ` Douglas Gilbert [this message]
2005-09-15 17:24 ` Mike Christie
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