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From: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 01/17] Clear up sc_data_direction documentation
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 13:06:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54C2393B.5000208@sandisk.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54C2390A.3000700@sandisk.com>

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
---
 Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt         | 6 +++---
 Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt | 5 +++--
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
index 0f7afb2..3999ec3 100644
--- a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
+++ b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
@@ -507,9 +507,9 @@ Only streaming mappings specify a direction, consistent mappings
 implicitly have a direction attribute setting of
 DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL.
 
-The SCSI subsystem tells you the direction to use in the
-'sc_data_direction' member of the SCSI command your driver is
-working on.
+Except for bidi commands, the SCSI subsystem tells you the direction to
+use in the 'sc_data_direction' member of the SCSI command your driver
+is working on.
 
 For Networking drivers, it's a rather simple affair.  For transmit
 packets, map/unmap them with the DMA_TO_DEVICE direction
diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt b/Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt
index 731bc4f..39cbbca 100644
--- a/Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt
@@ -1259,8 +1259,9 @@ be at least one instance of struct scsi_cmnd available for each SCSI device.
 Members of interest:
     cmnd         - array containing SCSI command
     cmnd_len     - length (in bytes) of SCSI command
-    sc_data_direction - direction of data transfer in data phase. See
-                "enum dma_data_direction" in include/linux/dma-mapping.h
+    sc_data_direction - except for bidi commands, direction of data transfer
+                in data phase. See "enum dma_data_direction" in
+                include/linux/dma-mapping.h
     request_bufflen - number of data bytes to transfer (0 if no data phase)
     use_sg       - ==0 -> no scatter gather list, hence transfer data
                           to/from request_buffer
-- 
2.1.2


  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-23 12:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-23 12:05 [PATCH 0/17] Clear up bidi command confusion Bart Van Assche
2015-01-23 12:06 ` Bart Van Assche [this message]
2015-01-23 12:06 ` [PATCH 02/17] Clean up scsi_ioctl_reset() Bart Van Assche
2015-01-23 12:07 ` [PATCH 03/17] sg: Remove an unused variable Bart Van Assche
2015-01-23 12:30   ` Douglas Gilbert
2015-01-23 12:07 ` [PATCH 04/17] dpt_i2o: Fix bidi command test Bart Van Assche
2015-01-23 12:08 ` [PATCH 05/17] aachba: " Bart Van Assche
2015-01-23 12:08 ` [PATCH 06/17] eata: Remove dead code Bart Van Assche
2015-01-23 12:09 ` [PATCH 07/17] sbp2: Fix bidi command test Bart Van Assche
2015-01-23 14:05   ` Stefan Richter
2015-01-23 12:10 ` [PATCH 08/17] ibmvscsi: " Bart Van Assche
2015-01-27 22:10   ` Tyrel Datwyler
2015-01-28  7:57     ` Bart Van Assche
2015-01-28 22:42       ` Tyrel Datwyler
2015-01-23 12:10 ` [PATCH 09/17] cciss: Remove dead code Bart Van Assche
2015-01-23 12:11 ` [PATCH 10/17] hpsa: " Bart Van Assche
2015-01-23 12:11 ` [PATCH 11/17] 3w-9xxx: " Bart Van Assche
2015-01-23 12:12 ` [PATCH 12/17] ncr53c8xx: Fix bidi command support Bart Van Assche
2015-01-23 12:13 ` [PATCH 13/17] qla1280: " Bart Van Assche
2015-01-23 12:13 ` [PATCH 14/17] 53c700: Remove dead code Bart Van Assche
2015-01-23 12:14 ` [PATCH 15/17] mvumi: " Bart Van Assche
2015-01-23 12:15 ` [PATCH 16/17] sym_glue: Fix bidi command test Bart Van Assche
2015-01-23 12:17 ` [PATCH 17/17] IB/srp: Detect bidi commands properly Bart Van Assche
2015-01-25 16:58   ` Sagi Grimberg
2015-01-23 13:12 ` [PATCH 0/17] Clear up bidi command confusion Christoph Hellwig
2015-01-26  9:58   ` Bart Van Assche
2015-01-29 13:07     ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-01-29 13:20       ` Bart Van Assche
2015-01-29 14:43         ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-01-29 13:00   ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-01-29 14:41     ` James Bottomley
2015-01-29 14:56       ` Boaz Harrosh

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