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From: Jeremy Higdon <jeremy@sgi.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Emoore@lsil.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fusion update to current APIs
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 17:36:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040612003608.GA152454@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040531115229.GA16143@lst.de>

On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 01:52:29PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>  - kill scsi_to_pci_dma_dir usage, both pci and scsi use the same bits
>  - kill mptscsih_io_direction and always trust the midlayer

Christoph, the midlayer gets it wrong sometimes.

Specifically, when the sg driver can't tell the direction, because the
input and output buffer sizes are identical (and an older sg interface
is being used), the sg driver assumes that the direction is inbound
(SCSI_READ).

There are several apps out there that get that do this, but which work
because the host drivers override the direction passed in from sg.

Now if we have to go out and get all these apps fixed, there will be
a lot of pain out there :-)

jeremy

  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-12  0:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-31 11:52 [PATCH] fusion update to current APIs Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-12  0:36 ` Jeremy Higdon [this message]
2004-06-12  3:45   ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-06-12  5:13     ` Jeremy Higdon
2004-06-12  5:20       ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-06-15  6:08         ` [PATCH] sg.c to set direction more reliably (was Re: [PATCH] fusion update to current APIs) Jeremy Higdon
2004-06-15  6:47           ` Douglas Gilbert
2004-06-15  7:41             ` Jeremy Higdon
2004-06-15 15:07               ` Jeff Garzik
2004-06-15 21:34                 ` Jeremy Higdon
2004-06-15 22:10                   ` Jeff Garzik
2004-06-15 22:15                   ` Jeremy Higdon
2004-08-26  7:09                     ` Jeremy Higdon
2004-08-26  8:44                       ` Douglas Gilbert
2004-08-27  1:12                         ` Jeremy Higdon
2004-08-27  8:10                           ` Jeremy Higdon
2004-08-28  5:08                             ` Douglas Gilbert
2004-08-28  9:39                               ` Jeremy Higdon
2004-08-30  7:08                                 ` [PATCH] sg.c to warn about ambiguous data direction Jeremy Higdon
2004-06-15  6:54           ` [PATCH] sg.c to set direction more reliably (was Re: [PATCH] fusion update to current APIs) Jeff Garzik
2004-06-15  7:50             ` Jeremy Higdon
2004-06-15  7:57               ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-06-15  8:40                 ` Jeremy Higdon
2004-06-15  8:17           ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-15  8:48             ` Jeremy Higdon
2004-06-15  9:10               ` Jeremy Higdon
2004-06-15  9:31                 ` Jeremy Higdon
2004-06-15 17:42                   ` Patrick Mansfield

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