James Bottomley wrote: > On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 10:21 -0600, Mike Christie wrote: >> I think they get around this and other request settings that need >> resetting by using scsi_execute_async. They will take the command, data >> direction and buffer fields from the original scsi_cmnd, then pass those >> on to scsi_ececute_async which would allocate a new request and then as >> you know that new request gets sent to the scsi layer and looks like a >> brand new request. So I misspoke above. It might be better to say they >> are using it for routing what the other multipath layers would call >> cloned commands. > > But actually, that's what I don't think they want to do. Yeah, you are right. Proper cloning is the better way to go. - To unsubscribe from this list: 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