Re: I2O enhancement for Adaptec management software

[Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>]

Hello,

>>Than i have to move the patch to the i2o_scsi driver, because the 
>>i2o_scsi uses the SCSI subsystem already. But IMHO the i2o_config driver 
>>is better suited, cause the patch is only needed for the management 
>>software. One last question, could i use the SG list building function 
>>without using the SCSI layer?
> Yes.  All sg functions are in block.  Without the SCSI framework, you
> lose the mid-layer managing sglist allocation, so you'd have to do that
> yourself, but every other non-scsi block driver also has that problem.

Okay, sounds reasonable. I'll look at it. Maybe than dpt_i2o can benefit 
too ;-)

Thanks very much for the great hint!



Best regards,


Markus Lidel
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