Re: question about passing physical address to lower level driver in scsi

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hi all:

2011/10/31, Stefan Richter <stefanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Oct 31 Julian Calaby wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 12:53, yoma sophian <sophian.yoma@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> > hi stefan:
>> > Thanks for your reply.
>> > 2011/10/30, Stefan Richter <stefanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> >> The low level driver, not SCSI core, is responsible to obtain a DMA
>> >> address.
>> >
>> > Why I ask this because I found there is no same transformation for
>> > scsi usb subsystem.
>> > Would anyone can let me know where it is?
>>
>> I am not familiar with the code in question, but I would guess that
>> this would happen in the USB Controller Interface driver.
>
> I don't know the USB subsystem either.  Anyway, in this case the
> "SCSI low-level" (i.e. SCSI transport and interconnect driver)
> internally consists of USB high-level (storage), USB core, and USB
> low-level (UHCI, EHCI or whatever).  "grep -r dma_map_sg drivers/usb/"
> shows occurrences of scatter-gather list DMA mappings in the USB core.  I
> haven't checked whether these are indeed the ones that the usb-storage
> driver relies on.
I will check where you mentioned.
appreciate your kind help,
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