From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [PATCHSET pata-2.6] ide: rq->buffer, data, special and misc cleanups Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:20:22 +0900 Message-ID: <49D0FF56.3080205@kernel.org> References: <1237910776-10983-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> <200903281451.01361.bzolnier@gmail.com> <20090328140405.GA2741@liondog.tnic> <49D08CEC.3010705@kernel.org> <49D0A985.7090307@panasas.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <49D0A985.7090307@panasas.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Boaz Harrosh Cc: petkovbb@gmail.com, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, axboe@kernel.dk, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Boaz Harrosh wrote: >> 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 Here's the patchset. It builds but I haven't even booted it yet, so expect some breakages. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tj/misc.git;a=shortlog;h=map-untested git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc.git map-untested Thanks. -- tejun