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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net>,
	SCSI development list <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Comments about the __scsi_mode_sense() routine
Date: 17 Jul 2003 11:47:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1058456873.2647.55.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0307171037470.750-100000@ida.rowland.org>

On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 10:50, Alan Stern wrote:
> James:
> 
> I've got some comments about your __scsi_mode_sense() routine in
> scsi_lib.c.  Some of these may be wrong, and I'd like to get the straight 
> story.
> 
> 	1.  The kerneldoc at the start describes the return value wrongly.  
> The actual return value is the request's result code; it has nothing to do 
> with header offsets.

Yes, changed the return convention but not the docbook.

> 	2.  According to my outdated SCSI documentation, the DBD bit
> should be set to 0 to allow block descriptors and 1 to forbid them.  This
> is contrary to the kerneldoc and also contrary to the use in
> sd_read_cache_type() in sd.c.

This was commented on a while ago.  Looks like I updated the docbook for
one routine but not the other.

James



  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-17 15:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-22 16:09 Is it safe to do DMA directly into scmd->sense_buffer? Alan Stern
2003-06-22 17:06 ` James Bottomley
2003-07-17 14:50   ` Comments about the __scsi_mode_sense() routine Alan Stern
2003-07-17 15:47     ` James Bottomley [this message]
2003-07-17 19:51       ` Alan Stern
2003-07-30 20:36   ` PATCH: (as73) Do a minimal transfer for disk-cache mode-sense page Alan Stern
2003-07-30 21:04     ` James Bottomley
2003-07-31 15:12       ` Revised PATCH: (as73b) " Alan Stern
2003-07-31 19:53       ` PATCH: (as70b) Update request_bufflen to match this_count Alan Stern

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