From: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
To: dougg@torque.net, Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Cc: axboe@suse.de, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/10] remove scsi_request usage from sg and st
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 04:10:31 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43707997.7020404@cs.wisc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1131444389.23111.56.camel@max>
Mike Christie wrote:
> The following patches, made against scsi-misc, remove the scsi_request
> usage from st and sg, do some tiny cleanup on sg, and make sg and st
> always perform scatterlist IO.
>
> I have tested against libata and scsi_debug for disks. There are slight
> changes, so someone with a tape device should test the patches, but Kai
> since Kai did all the debugging last round I have not made many changes.
> We will probably hit many problems with LLDs using low max_hw_sectors,
> because they have not been converted to export their real values on the
> host template so I think these patches should sit in scsi-misc for a
> good deal of time.
>
I for got to cc the st and sg maintainers. In case you guys do not
follow linux-scsi closely and do not want all those patches sent to you
I put them here
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~michaelc/block/use-sg/v8/
I can email them again too if you want.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-08 10:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-08 10:06 [PATCH 0/10] remove scsi_request usage from sg and st Mike Christie
2005-11-08 10:10 ` Mike Christie [this message]
2005-11-08 16:54 ` Mike Christie
2005-11-10 10:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-11-10 12:51 ` Mike Christie
2005-11-10 13:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
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