On 10/22/2010 07:32 PM, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: > Boaz Harrosh, on 10/19/2010 06:13 PM wrote: >> This is a trivial addition to the SG API that can receive kernel >> pointers. It is only used by the out-of-tree test module. So >> it's immediate need is questionable. For maintenance ease it might >> just get in, as it's very small. > > This patch doesn't handle queue's restrictions (DMA, etc.). > Please for give me. I know that the name is misleading. The Scatter-List here is the osd scatter-list. Which describes extents on the object, not of the memory. The proper name would be extents API. The reason we named it SG is because this is the way the OSD standard names it. We keep very close with the STD naming convention, so it ended up this way. > Here is a complete patch for reading/writing SG lists from the kernel: > http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/14/201 > > Vlad 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
