Re: [PATCH] bsg: iovec support

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From: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bsg: iovec support
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:04:45 -0400

> >> Pete is also suggesting (shown above) a revised sg_io_vec
> >> structure that uses a uint64_t for the pointer to simplify
> >> 32, 64 bit thunking.
> > 
> > All I said is that it would be better to use the existing compat
> > infrastructure (sg_build_iovec, sg_ioctl_trans, etc in
> > fs/compat_ioctl.c) instead of adding another compat code.
> 
> Won't sg v4 make this even a bigger mess, at least
> initially anyway?

Inventing a new iovec structure like sg_io_v4_vec and something like
blk_rq_map_user_iov_sgv4 sounds a mess.
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