Re: [PATCH 14/17] scsi: replace custom rq mapping withblk_rq_map_kern_sgl()

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Mon Apr 13 2009 - 08:59:33 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxx> 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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