Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: highmem and usb [was "sr: unaligned transfer" in 2.5.2-pre1]

[Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>]

On Wed, Jan 02 2002, David Brownell wrote:
> > > requirement for drivers is that the transfer buffers can be passed to
> > > pci_map_single() calls by the Host Controller Drivers (HCDs).  The
> > > device drivers, and URBs, don't expose such mappings, they only
> > > require that they can be created/destroyed.
> > 
> > .. which is the requirement that you want to change to use pci_map_page
> > or pci_map_sg
> 
> OK, I think I'm clear on this much then:  in 2.5, to support block drivers
> over USB (usb-storage only, for now) there needs to be an addition to
> the buffer addressing model in usbcore, as exposed by URBs.
> 
>   - Current "transfer_buffer" + "transfer_buffer_length" mode needs to
>     stay, since most drivers aren't block drivers.

Why? Surely USB block drivers are not the only ones that want to support
highmem.

>   - Add some kind of "page + offset" addressing model.

Yes

> Discussion of details can be taken off LKML, it'd seem.  Though I'm
> curious when the scatterlist->address field will vanish, making these
> changes a requirement.  Is that a 2.5.2 thing?

Maybe 2.5.3, dunno for sure.

> Also, I noticed that include/asm-sparc/pci.h doesn't include the
> standard pci_map_page() call ... what's up with that?  That surely
> causes portability problems.

It probably isn't up to snuff yet.

-- 
Jens Axboe