On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:41:51AM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 01:32:15PM -0400, Monty Montgomery wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven > > <Geert.Uytterhoeven@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > >> (May I ask-- why the hard starting/stopping of the interface? Power saving?] > > why the calls to sg_start? > > In this case, sg means scatter/gather, and it's a purely internal > interface. It does not start/stop the drive, nor the scsi interface. That'll teach me to comment before reading the entire thread. Please ignore this mistaken explanation; I thought you were commenting on a patch, not on the commands used at the command line. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- 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
