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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>,
	Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>,
	Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>,
	SCSI development list <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	USB development list <linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Re: Unaligned scatter-gather buffers and usb-storage
Date: 19 Nov 2003 08:58:22 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1069253904.10768.13.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031119143901.GI1106@suse.de>

On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 08:39, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > but, regardless, the queue is already set up (for all devices, including
> > st) in either slave_alloc, or slave_configure, so you could call the
> > alignment setting routine there.
> 
> That was my point, yes.

I know, just driving it home.  I'll hand back the reins now...

> 
> > Alternatively, we could add this as yet another parameter to the host
> > and template structures.  Any preferences?
> 
> I suppose you have to, if you want LLD to be able to pass it down.

Well, what I was fishing for: Is this property useful enough to want
every device driver writer to think about it (i.e. document and place in
the template),  or is it rare enough that it should only be accessible
to those who know what they're doing (via the direct block queue
interfaces in slave_alloc/configure)?

James




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  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-19 14:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1068207145.3fab8c2988d43@webmail.netregistry.net>
2003-11-07 16:21 ` usb-storage and Sony Handycam Alan Stern
2003-11-07 17:29   ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-11-07 19:49     ` Alan Stern
2003-11-08  2:54       ` Dmitri Katchalov
2003-11-08  6:34         ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-11-08 13:29           ` Dmitri Katchalov
2003-11-08 16:28           ` Alan Stern
2003-11-08 20:37             ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-11-09  3:47               ` [linux-usb-devel] " Alan Stern
2003-11-09  8:45                 ` Dmitri Katchalov
2003-11-10 20:45                   ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-11-10 17:59                 ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-11-10 18:46                   ` Alan Stern
2003-11-10 19:04                     ` [linux-usb-devel] " Patrick Mansfield
2003-11-10 19:57                       ` Alan Stern
2003-11-10 22:46                     ` Sancho Dauskardt
2003-11-18 15:20                   ` Unaligned scatter-gather buffers and usb-storage Alan Stern
2003-11-18 22:37                     ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-11-19  8:47                       ` Jens Axboe
2003-11-19 13:01                         ` [linux-usb-devel] " Oliver Neukum
2003-11-19 13:04                           ` Jens Axboe
2003-11-19 14:37                             ` James Bottomley
2003-11-19 14:39                               ` Jens Axboe
2003-11-19 14:58                                 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2003-11-19 15:00                                   ` [linux-usb-devel] " Jens Axboe
2003-11-19 16:56                                     ` Kai Makisara
2003-11-19 20:19                                       ` Jens Axboe
2003-11-19 22:06                                         ` Kai Makisara
2003-11-20  6:53                                           ` Jens Axboe
2003-11-20 15:20                                             ` Alan Stern
2003-11-20 15:30                                               ` Jens Axboe
2003-11-20 16:09                                                 ` Alan Stern
2003-11-20 16:24                                                   ` Jens Axboe
2003-11-20 16:28                                                 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Oliver Neukum
2003-11-20 19:23                                                   ` Kai Makisara
2003-11-20 17:18                                               ` Kai Makisara
2003-11-20 19:18                                                 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Kai Mäkisara
2003-11-21 18:03                                                   ` PATCH: (as141) " Alan Stern
2003-11-21 20:07                                                     ` Kai Makisara
2003-12-01  1:30                                                     ` Matthew Dharm
2004-01-05  0:41                                                     ` Matthew Dharm
2004-01-05 10:08                                                       ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-05 21:58                                                         ` PATCH: (as141b) " Alan Stern
2004-01-06 11:28                                                           ` Oliver Neukum
2004-01-06 16:10                                                             ` Alan Stern
2004-02-02 15:51                                                           ` James Bottomley
2004-02-03 15:47                                                             ` Alan Stern
2004-02-03 15:55                                                               ` James Bottomley
2004-02-03 16:02                                                               ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-11-19 15:44                         ` Alan Stern
2003-11-19 15:49                           ` Jens Axboe
2003-11-19 16:58                             ` Alan Stern
2003-11-19 17:03                               ` Jens Axboe
2003-11-07 22:09     ` usb-storage and Sony Handycam Alan Stern

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