From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Douglas Gilbert Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC/RFT 3/4] convert sg Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 22:10:02 +1000 Message-ID: <4329649A.6000406@torque.net> References: <1126736390.16778.26.camel@max> Reply-To: dougg@torque.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from zorg.st.net.au ([203.16.233.9]:7868 "EHLO borg.st.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751152AbVIOMJn (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2005 08:09:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1126736390.16778.26.camel@max> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Mike Christie Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org 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