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From: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC/RFT 3/4] convert sg
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:24:48 -0500
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Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> 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 :-)
> 

:) I found some bugs last night during testing. I will remake a patchset 
  today with my fixes and Chrisopth's and Jens's comments included.