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From: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFT/RFC 2/4] add dm_scsi helpers
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:01:36 -0500
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Mike Christie wrote:
> I took this function from the cleanup I am doing in the
> scsi layer. Unfortunately that work needs some things
> fleshed out so I do not know when it will ever be merged.
> For now so that dm can move forward I put only what we need
> in dm-hw-handler.c and when the scsi-ml work gets
> finished I hope we can merge the two or most likely add a
> wrapper around the scsi function since we need mempools for
> some of our structs.
> 

oh yeah that reminds me, does anyone know if we will ever need very 
large requests? A meg, or a couple of megs, or something that cannot be 
handled with a kmalloc. Just wondering becuase for the scsi stuff we 
need iovec/bvec/scatterlist support which I am working on.