linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scatterlist: enable sg chaining for all architectures

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Date:	Wed, 29 Apr 2015 10:31:00 +0300
From:	Boaz Harrosh <boaz@...xistor.com>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	"linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@...ux-iscsi.org>,
	target-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	Parisc List <linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scatterlist: enable sg chaining for all architectures

On 04/29/2015 05:15 AM, James Bottomley wrote:
> 
> Perhaps the best thing to do is just fix target and call it quits?
> 

Right! drivers write code for sg_chaining and on ARCHs that do not
support it the code just works.
Only the max_sg is smaller and the chaining code never kicks in
and is dead code for these ARCHs.

> James

Cheers
Boaz

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