Re: Possible bug in scsi_lib.c:scsi_req_map_sg()

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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.
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