Re: [PATCH] usb: wire adapter: add scatter gather support

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On Tue, 11 Jun 2013, Greg KH wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:39:31AM -0500, Thomas Pugliese wrote:
> > This patch adds support for scatter gather DMA to the wire adapter and 
> 
> Don't you mean "wireless adapter"?

The Wireless USB spec uses the term "wire adapter" to specify the means by 
which the USB protocol is tunnelled over Wireless USB.  The wireless host 
controller is a host wire adapter (HWA) and the device-side of the link is 
a device wire adapter (DWA) if it allows wired USB devices to be plugged 
into it.

> 
> > updates the HWA to advertise support for SG transfers.  This allows the 
> > block layer to submit transfer requests to the HWA HC without first 
> > breaking them up into PAGE_SIZE requests.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Pugliese <thomas.pugliese@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Please cc: me on patches you want applied, so I don't loose them in the
> mailing list archives accidentally.

Will do. Thanks.

> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
> 
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