From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vladislav Bolkhovitin Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4 ver2] libosd: write/read_sg_kern API Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 21:32:01 +0400 Message-ID: <4CC1CA91.1080003@vlnb.net> References: <4CBD8CAB.2030207@panasas.com> <1287490962-24013-1-git-send-email-bharrosh@panasas.com> <4CBDA79E.8080006@panasas.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.10]:59321 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756447Ab0JVRcJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2010 13:32:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4CBDA79E.8080006@panasas.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Boaz Harrosh Cc: James Bottomley , John Chandy , open-osd , linux-scsi Boaz Harrosh, on 10/19/2010 06:13 PM wrote: > This is a trivial addition to the SG API that can receive kernel > pointers. It is only used by the out-of-tree test module. So > it's immediate need is questionable. For maintenance ease it might > just get in, as it's very small. This patch doesn't handle queue's restrictions (DMA, etc.). Here is a complete patch for reading/writing SG lists from the kernel: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/14/201 Vlad