From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Boaz Harrosh Subject: Re: [PATCHSET pata-2.6] ide: rq->buffer, data, special and misc cleanups Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:14:13 +0300 Message-ID: <49D0A985.7090307@panasas.com> References: <1237910776-10983-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> <200903281451.01361.bzolnier@gmail.com> <20090328140405.GA2741@liondog.tnic> <49D08CEC.3010705@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from gw-ca.panasas.com ([209.116.51.66]:1106 "EHLO laguna.int.panasas.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750993AbZC3LQI (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:16:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: <49D08CEC.3010705@kernel.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tejun Heo Cc: petkovbb@gmail.com, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, axboe@kernel.dk, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On 03/30/2009 12:12 PM, Tejun Heo wrote: > Borislav Petkov wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 02:51:01PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: >> >> [..] >> >>>> Bartlomiej, if you're okay with the changes and Jens acks the patches >>>> and pushing the first three patches via pata-2.6, please feel free to >>>> include these patches into your tree. >>> Everything looks fine to me. Once I get Jens' ack (block bits) >>> and Borislav's one (ATAPI bits) I'll happily merge this patchset. >> Yep, I just finished testing the whole series here so you can go ahead >> and apply them pending a recast of patch 07/14 you'll hopefully be >> receiving soon from Tejun. > > After the earlier discussion with Boaz Harrosh, I ended up redoing the > blk_rq_map_{kern|user}_*() stuff and am now in the process of testing > it. The patchset is rather large (20+ patches). As the prealloc > patch would fit on top of that series, I think it would be better to > sequence things via git merge. Is there a git tree I can use for > pata-2.6 changes? Or is the current linus master okay? > > Thanks. > > P.S.: Boaz, the above patchset implements blk_rq_map_kern_sgl() What is blk_rq_map_kern_sgl() ? I'm not sure I remember ? What is it's API? and what does it do? > and > kills the SCSI layer hack. That was the issue you were trying to > solve, right? > If you post URL of git tree I can have a look and start an early review if you want Thanks for doing this Boaz