On Thursday 20 December 2007 18:07:41 FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:45:18 +1100 > > Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > OK, some fixes since last time, as I wade through more SCSI drivers. > > Some drivers use "use_sg" as a flag to know whether the request_buffer is > > a scatterlist: I don't need the counter, but I still need the flag, so I > > fixed that in a more intuitive way (an explicit ->sg pointer in the cmd). > > use_sg and the request_buffer will be removed shortly. > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=119754650614813&w=2 Thanks! Is there a git tree somewhere with these changes? > I think that we tried the similar idea before, scsi_sgtable, but we > seem to settle in the current simple approach. Yes, a scsi-specific solution is a bad idea: other people use sg. Manipulating the magic chains is horrible; it looks simple to the places which simply want to iterate through it, but it's awful for code which wants to create them. Cheers, Rusty. - 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
