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From: Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/15] libata: Setup nbytes in ata_sg_init_one
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 08:36:48 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44216100.6050107@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4420AC91.4070007@pobox.com>

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Brian King wrote:
>> Setup nbytes in ata_sg_init_one to the total transfer length
>> of the command.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com>
>> ---
>>
>>  libata-dev-bjking1/drivers/scsi/libata-core.c |    1 +
>>  1 files changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff -puN drivers/scsi/libata-core.c~libata_setup_nbytes drivers/scsi/libata-core.c
>> --- libata-dev/drivers/scsi/libata-core.c~libata_setup_nbytes	2006-03-17 15:35:26.000000000 -0600
>> +++ libata-dev-bjking1/drivers/scsi/libata-core.c	2006-03-17 15:35:26.000000000 -0600
>> @@ -2887,6 +2887,7 @@ void ata_sg_init_one(struct ata_queued_c
>>  	qc->n_elem = 1;
>>  	qc->orig_n_elem = 1;
>>  	qc->buf_virt = buf;
>> +	qc->nbytes = buflen;
> 
> Why?
> 
> This is largely an internal variable used by the ATAPI code.

The ipr driver needs to know the total transfer length of the command
in bytes to setup the command to the adapter properly, since the adapter
firmware interface requires it. I didn't see anywhere else to get this
information, the only other option would be to compute it based on the
scatterlist.


-- 
Brian King
eServer Storage I/O
IBM Linux Technology Center

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-22 14:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-17 23:03 [PATCH 01/15] libata: Setup nbytes in ata_sg_init_one Brian King
2006-03-22  1:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-22 14:36   ` Brian King [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-06 15:42 [patch " brking
2006-02-09  7:14 ` Jeff Garzik

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