Re: [PATCH, RFC] hide EH backup data outside the scsi_cmnd

[Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>]

FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] hide EH backup data outside the scsi_cmnd
> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 21:43:49 -0500
> 
>> On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 21:19 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>> looks like no one but James looked at it as I attached a completely
>>> different patch that has been merged long ago.  Here's the real one:
>> And finally, the scsi-target-2.6 tree likewise needs converting.  This
>> one I'm not sure about, since they appear to need the copy from
>> cmnd_data to cmnd which I just killed.  Can someone who knows this tree
>> look this over?
> 
> Thanks for the patch.
> 
> tgt uses request_bufflen, bufflen, request_buffer, buffer to handle
> very large requests (that involves multiple bios). We can add
> substitutes into tgt specific data structure (scsi_tgt_cmd structure).
> 

I think that is going to be best since we are the only users now.

> I sent a patch related with scsi_tgt_cmd structure last week.
> 
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=114960851929878&w=2
> 
> Will this patch be merged? I like to send a new patch on the top of
> it.
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