linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] sg

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Message-Id: <20071220160741K.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Date:	Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:07:41 +0900
From:	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
To:	rusty@...tcorp.com.au
Cc:	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	jens.axboe@...cle.com, dougg@...que.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] sg_ring for scsi

On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:45:18 +1100
Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> wrote:

> OK, some fixes since last time, as I wade through more SCSI drivers.  Some 
> drivers use "use_sg" as a flag to know whether the request_buffer is a 
> scatterlist: I don't need the counter, but I still need the flag, so I fixed 
> that in a more intuitive way (an explicit ->sg pointer in the cmd).

use_sg and the request_buffer will be removed shortly.

http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=119754650614813&w=2


I think that we tried the similar idea before, scsi_sgtable, but we
seem to settle in the current simple approach.
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