From: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
To: Rusty Trivial Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, wstinson@infonie.fr
Subject: Re: [TRIVIAL] copy_XX_user for sg.c - take 2
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 23:25:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D34E3BA.2B2EE2AC@torque.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020715082116.98C2A434C@lists.samba.org
Rusty Trivial Russell wrote:
>
> [ This one is hardly trivial: it seems correct, but... Please check ]
>
> From: (via Rusty) william stinson <wstinson@infonie.fr>
>
> Hi Rusty,
>
> here is version 2 of my sg.c patch to correct indentation to 4blanks as you pointed out (I hope I didn't miss anything).
>
> This proposed patch for the sg.c driver which allows user process control of SCSI devices
> 1) checks the result of copy_XX_user
> 2) returns -EFAULT in case not all data was copied
> 3) releases resources in case of failure
> 4) return value of sg_read_oxfer changed from void to int
> in order to be able to pass back error conditions
Rusty,
This patch, together with one to disable kiobufs usage
(for Andrew Morton's direct-to-BIO changes), are in
lk 2.5.26
Doug Gilbert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-17 3:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-15 8:19 [TRIVIAL] copy_XX_user for sg.c - take 2 Rusty Trivial Russell
2002-07-17 3:25 ` Douglas Gilbert [this message]
2002-07-18 1:59 ` Rusty Russell
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