Re: sense handling improvements

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On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 09:19:18AM +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> On 02/14/2017 08:15 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > this series is on top of the scsi_request changes in Jens' tree and
> > further improves the handling of the sense buffer.
> > 
> Sorry, but I'm feeling really daft: which scsi_request changes?

That is the "split scsi passthrough fields out of struct request"
series.

> To be found in which tree?

Jens' for-next tree, as mentioned above.

> Have we audited all drivers to _not_ do DMA into the sense buffer?
> By first glance some still do, so they'll break horribly when moving the
> sense buffer onto the stack ...

With the above series the sense buffer is allocate by the driver,
and they will always DMA into that.



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