From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC/RFT 01/10] block: add bsg heler library Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:32:53 +0200 Message-ID: <4E2C6555.50105@fusionio.com> References: <1311497964-26842-1-git-send-email-michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> <1311497964-26842-2-git-send-email-michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mx1.fusionio.com ([66.114.96.30]:58948 "EHLO mx1.fusionio.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751476Ab1GXSdC (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Jul 2011 14:33:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1311497964-26842-2-git-send-email-michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: "michaelc@cs.wisc.edu" Cc: "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" On 2011-07-24 10:59, michaelc@cs.wisc.edu wrote: > From: Mike Christie > > This moves the FC classes bsg code to the block layer and > makes it a lib so that other classes like iscsi and SAS can use it. > > It is helpful because working with the request queue, bios, > creating scatterlists, etc are a pain that the LLD does not > have to worry about with normal IOs and should not have to > worry about for bsg requests. Mike, I'm going to queue this up for post -rc1. -- Jens Axboe