Re: [PATCH 0/17] Clear up bidi command confusion

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On 01/23/15 14:12, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 01:05:30PM +0100, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>> There is some confusion in the SCSI core and in SCSI LLDs around the
>> meaning of sc_data_direction and whether or not this member can have the
>> value DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL. Clear up this confusion. The patches in this
>> series are:
> 
> I wonder if we should change the code to set DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL for
> bidi commands.  That seems a lot more logical than the current
> version.
> 
> Also I don't think all the debug checks for bidi commands that you
> change should stay at all - driver need to set the QUEUE_FLAG_BIDI to
> ever see a bidi command.
> 
> It would also nice to add a host template flag for bidi support instead
> of having to poke into the block layer request_queue while we're at it.

Hello Christoph,

This makes sense to me. I will rework this patch series as you proposed.

Bart.
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