From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/14] block: implement blk_rq_map_kern_prealloc() Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:26:35 +0900 Message-ID: <49CC395B.20003@gmail.com> References: <1237910776-10983-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> <1237910776-10983-4-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> <49CA4B4B.50408@panasas.com> <49CAE425.5050009@kernel.org> <49CB31DB.2040608@gmail.com> <49CB3765.4070406@panasas.com> <49CB387A.3000006@panasas.com> <49CB56AD.3080101@gmail.com> <49CB65CB.1030905@panasas.com> <49CB6FF8.7050701@gmail.com> <49CB94E9.5040808@panasas.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.142.188]:25432 "EHLO ti-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753748AbZC0C0n (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:26:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: <49CB94E9.5040808@panasas.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Boaz Harrosh Cc: bzolnier@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, axboe@kernel.dk, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Hello, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > Yes sure, I'll be thinking about this some more too. Once your patch > pile settles we can sort out an additional cleanup that unifies some > of today's exported functions, just like you did with the blk_end_request. I'm currently looking at the mapping API. It's actually the final obstacle. It seems scsi_req_map_sg() should really be in blk-map and doing that would solve most issues we've been talking about, right? Anyways, I'll take deeper look and see whether I can clean this up. > Do you have a public tree I can inspect the all lot in one central > place? That should be the IDE tree you published few days ago > right? I'll look for it. I have ~40 more patches on top of those two. They're mostly ready. I'll post them soonish (I want to say later today but I said later today yesterday too :-) Thanks. -- tejun