From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Christie Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/10] remove scsi_request usage from sg and st Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 04:10:31 -0600 Message-ID: <43707997.7020404@cs.wisc.edu> References: <1131444389.23111.56.camel@max> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from sabe.cs.wisc.edu ([128.105.6.20]:13727 "EHLO sabe.cs.wisc.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932391AbVKHKKm (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Nov 2005 05:10:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1131444389.23111.56.camel@max> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: dougg@torque.net, Kai Makisara Cc: axboe@suse.de, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Mike Christie wrote: > The following patches, made against scsi-misc, remove the scsi_request > usage from st and sg, do some tiny cleanup on sg, and make sg and st > always perform scatterlist IO. > > I have tested against libata and scsi_debug for disks. There are slight > changes, so someone with a tape device should test the patches, but Kai > since Kai did all the debugging last round I have not made many changes. > We will probably hit many problems with LLDs using low max_hw_sectors, > because they have not been converted to export their real values on the > host template so I think these patches should sit in scsi-misc for a > good deal of time. > I for got to cc the st and sg maintainers. In case you guys do not follow linux-scsi closely and do not want all those patches sent to you I put them here http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~michaelc/block/use-sg/v8/ I can email them again too if you want.