Boaz Harrosh, on 10/24/2010 01:55 PM wrote: > 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. OK, but the queue's restrictions aren't handled by it anyway. Vlad -- 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
