These two patches are some of the core or bugfix code for the SCSI ULD scatterlist code. The first patch exports the block layer functions needed to be able to do async REQ_BLOCK_PC commands and hook into the request end_io callout and it adds the max_hw_sectors code. And the second patch fixes a bug in st where it allows SCSI-ml to retry commands and reverts SCSI-ml back to its previous behavior where it does not allow scsi_io_completion to retry REQ_BLOCK_PC (previously special requests) commands. These patches were made against linux-2.6-block, but apply with some offset to scsi-misc. - : 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