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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jens.axboe@oracle.com,
	dougg@torque.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] sg_ring for scsi
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:26:47 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200712211426.47896.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071221112834X.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>

On Friday 21 December 2007 13:28:34 FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> I'm not sure about chaining the headers (as your sg_ring and
> scsi_sgtable do) would simplify LLDs. Have you looked at ips or
> qla1280?

Not yet, am working my way through the drivers, but I don't expect it will be 
a simplification to the normal SCSI LLDs.  Most of them are mere consumers of
sgs...

I'm not a SCSI person: I'm patching SCSI because I have to to get my own 
sg-using code clean :)

Hope that clarifies,
Rusty.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-21  3:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-20  5:45 [PATCH 0/5] sg_ring for scsi Rusty Russell
2007-12-20  5:48 ` [PATCH 1/5] sg_ring: sg_ring.h Rusty Russell
2007-12-20  5:49   ` [PATCH 2/5] dma_map_sg_ring() helper Rusty Russell
2007-12-20  5:50     ` [PATCH 3/5] blk_rq_map_sg_ring as a counterpart to blk_rq_map_sg Rusty Russell
2007-12-20  5:51       ` [PATCH 4/5] sg_ring: Convert core scsi code to sg_ring Rusty Russell
2007-12-20  5:53         ` [PATCH 5/5] sg_ring: Convert scsi_debug Rusty Russell
2007-12-20  7:06     ` [PATCH 2/5] dma_map_sg_ring() helper FUJITA Tomonori
2007-12-20  7:42       ` David Miller
2007-12-20 22:58         ` Rusty Russell
2007-12-21  0:00           ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-12-21  0:35             ` Rusty Russell
2007-12-21  0:40               ` David Miller
2007-12-21  2:22                 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-12-21  2:47                 ` Rusty Russell
2007-12-20  7:07 ` [PATCH 0/5] sg_ring for scsi FUJITA Tomonori
2007-12-20  7:53   ` Rusty Russell
2007-12-20  7:58     ` David Miller
2007-12-20  7:58       ` Jens Axboe
2007-12-20 23:13       ` Rusty Russell
2007-12-21  0:30         ` David Miller
2007-12-21  2:28         ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-12-21  3:26           ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2007-12-21  4:37             ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-12-26  0:27               ` Rusty Russell
2007-12-27  2:09                 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-12-27 11:52                   ` Rusty Russell
2007-12-21 12:13         ` Herbert Xu
2007-12-20  7:58     ` Jens Axboe
2007-12-20 13:55       ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-12-20 14:00         ` [PATCH 1/3] SG: Move functions to lib/scatterlist.c and add sg chaining allocator helpers Boaz Harrosh
2007-12-20 14:21           ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-12-21 12:15           ` Herbert Xu
2007-12-20 14:03         ` [PATCH 2/3] SG: Convert SCSI to use scatterlist helpers for sg chaining Boaz Harrosh
2007-12-20 14:26           ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-12-20 14:06         ` [PATCH 3/3] SG: Update ide/ to use sg_table Boaz Harrosh

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