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Message-Id: <1273546529-16846-1-git-send-email-fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 11:55:27 +0900
From: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
To: akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH -mm 1/3] Documentation: add SCSI drivers' mapping error handling to DMA-API-HOWTO
Adds the concrete DMA mapping error handling for SCSI drivers on the
queuecommand path.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...e.de>
---
Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt | 4 ++++
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
index 93d9087..a38ddad 100644
--- a/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
+++ b/Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt
@@ -745,6 +745,10 @@ and return NETDEV_TX_OK if the DMA mapping fails on the transmit hook
(ndo_start_xmit). This means that the socket buffer is just dropped in
the failure case.
+SCSI drivers must return SCSI_MLQUEUE_HOST_BUSY if the DMA mapping
+fails in the queuecommand hook. This means that the SCSI subsystem
+passes the command to the driver again later.
+
Closing
This document, and the API itself, would not be in its current
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