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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
Cc: SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>, bunk@fs.tum.de
Subject: Re: Is scsi_cmnd::underflow still useful?
Date: 12 Jul 2004 19:55:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1089680114.2074.198.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40F2E93B.3040607@torque.net>

On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 14:40, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> Doesn't look like many LLDs act on scsi_cmnd::underflow.
> Seems to me that scsi_cmnd::resid is a more general
> replacement.

well, I know I suggested a recent use of it to the USB people , so I
don't think it's entirely unused.  resid can't be a replacement because
they mean different things:

resid - number of bytes left over after a transaction
underflow - driver must return error if less than this amount
transferred.

James



  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-13  0:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-12 19:40 Is scsi_cmnd::underflow still useful? Douglas Gilbert
2004-07-13  0:55 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2004-07-13  5:09   ` Matthew Dharm
2004-07-13 22:09   ` Douglas Gilbert

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