On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Mike Christie wrote: > convert st to always send scatterlists and kill scsi_request > usage. > > This is the same as last time as it was posted, but with Kai's patches > merged and we now pass the bytes value to scsi_execute_async. > This does not work "out of the box". The changes in st are almost the same ones than before but the world around st has changed ;-) This has revealed at least one bug in st that is fixed by the patch at the end of this message. After this patch some simple tests succeed but there seem to be still problems with larger requests. I don't have time to continue debugging just now but I should be able to post more results during this weekend. Kai --- linux-2.6.14-blk1/drivers/scsi/st.c.org 2005-11-09 22:36:56.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.14-blk1/drivers/scsi/st.c 2005-11-12 17:59:22.000000000 +0200 @@ -3666,6 +3666,7 @@ } STbuffer->frp_segs = STbuffer->orig_frp_segs; STbuffer->frp_sg_current = 0; + STbuffer->sg_segs = 0; } - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
