On Wed, Dec 19 2007, David Miller wrote: > From: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:53:48 +1100 > > > 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. > > I'm not saying complexity is inherent in this stuff, but > assuming that it is the complexity should live as far away > from the minions (the iterators in this case). Therefore, > the creators is the right spot for the hard stuff. Agree, and the missing bit is just moving the creators out of the driver parts and into a core helper. See the previous post on the 'sg' branch for 2.6.25. -- Jens Axboe - 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