linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 14/17] scsi: replace custom rq mapping with blk_rq_map_kern

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Date:	Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:59:12 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@...glemail.com>
To:	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
Cc:	tj@...nel.org, bharrosh@...asas.com,
	James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	axboe@...nel.dk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/17] scsi: replace custom rq mapping with
	blk_rq_map_kern_sgl()

Hi,

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 07:07:58PM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:38:23 +0900
> Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote:
> 
> > FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> > >> I thought that was agreed and done? What is left to do for that to go
> > >> in.
> > > 
> > > I've converted all the users (sg, st, osst). Nothing is left. So we
> > > don't need this.
> > 
> > Yeah, pulled it.  Okay, so we can postpone diddling with request
> > mapping for now.  I'll re-post fixes only from this and the previous
> > patchset and proceed with other patchsets.
> 
> To be honest, I don't think that we can clean up the block
> mapping. For example, blk_rq_map_kern_prealloc() in your patchset
> doesn't look cleanup to me. It's just moving a hack from ide to the
> block (well, I have to admit that I did the same thing when I
> converted sg/st/osst...).

Well, since blk_rq_map_kern_prealloc() is going to be used only in
ide-cd (driver needs it to queue a sense request from within the irq
handler) and since it is considered a hack I could try to move it out of
the irq handler and do away only with blk_rq_map_kern() if that is more
of an agreeable solution?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.
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