This is a proposed implementation of the scsi sg tables solution to scsi-ml in preparations for support of bidirectional scsi commands. A complete bidirectional solution on top of these patches can be found in the usual place: http://www.bhalevy.com/open-osd/download/sgtable_bidi_varlen It would be best if these patches can be accepted into Morton's tree as soon as the open window for 2.6.23. So it can be tested as much as possible before actually getting accepted into scsi-misc and eventually into the kernel. The reason I say that is because there is a small but scary difference between scsi-ml with accessors over old code and accessors over new sg-tables code. And that is the absence of the IO members in the case of a DMA_NONE transfer. An un-careful coding can trip on it. OK I admit the chances are slim but exist. The code is kept backward compatible with unconverted drivers all the way up to the last patch. So it can be run and tested with some drivers unconverted. Applying the last patch will remove compatibility. [patch 1/8] stex driver BROKEN Once patch 2/8 is applied this driver will no longer compile. So here I comment out some code. The maintainer of this driver said that driver will be fixed soon enough in the proper manner. [patch 2/8] Restrict scsi accessors access to read-only This patch should be accepted now. Even into 2.6.23. The rest of the patches are dependent on it. [patch 3/8] libata-scsi don't set max_phys_segments higher than scsi-ml Also this one is relevant now. But once scsi_sgtable is used sata will stop working without this one. [patch 4/8] RFC scsi-ml: scsi_sgtable implementation This is the actual patch for review. Please see comments inside and than fire away ... (With old code so not to let diff make a mess) [patch 5/8] Remove old code from scsi_lib.c For easier viewing old code is removed in second patch [patch 6/8] RFC scsi_error.c move to sg_table implementation Logically belongs to 4/8. Kept separate for easier review. [patch 7/8] sd.c and sr.c move to scsi_sgtable implementaion And these too. [patch 8/8] Remove compatibility with unconverted drivers Once this patch is applied any unconverted files will not compile. Free Life Boaz - 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
