Re: atomic_kmap for PIO (was Re: Fw: Kernel panic with dc395x in 2.6.12.2)

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Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Mike Christie wrote:
> 
> 
>>Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
>>
>>>Now, it would be best, I think, if somebody could review the patches to 
>>>dc395x and tmscsim. In case the 2 functions are correct, they could be 
>>>included in a central file (scsi_lib?) for all drivers, needing PIO (I 
>>
>>would it be possible to modify the scatterwalk code so we can share
>>something with other subsystems?
> 
> 
> Do you have something specific in mind or you just mean drivers, that I 
> mentioned: IDE and libata? If the latter - don't know. I seem to remember 
> as somebody described their requirements in the April discussion, they 
> seemed different enough to me. I am pretty sure IDE was mentioned as also 
> doing PIO sometimes, not even sure if libata really was also discussed. If 
> you mean something specific, like iscsi, - what exactly?

Well, iscsi too, but there is the scatterwalk code which the crypto api
uses today and looks similar to what ide, libata, and scsi need.
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