On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 07:37:14AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >Various scsi drivers use scsi_cmnd.buffer and scsi_cmnd.bufflen in their > >queuecommand functions. Those fields are internal storage for the > >midlayer only and are used to restore the original payload after > >request_buffer and request_bufflen have been overwritten for EH. Using > >the buffer and bufflen fields means they do very broken things in error > >handling. > > False statement, for libata. Why? I don't see anywhere in libata where it touches ->buffer or ->bufflen other than the two cases Christoph removed. - : 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
