From: tsbogend@alpha.franken.de (Thomas Bogendoerfer)
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
rdreier@cisco.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
rmk@arm.linux.org.uk, davem@davemloft.net,
james.bottomley@steeleye.com, ralf@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] scsi: Use new __dma_buffer to align sense buffer in scsi_cmnd
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:35:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071221163550.GA14740@alpha.franken.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071221140024.GO29690@parisc-linux.org>
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 07:00:25AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 02:30:28PM +0100, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
> > there are SCSI host drivers, which also DMA to the sense buffer like
> > sgiwd93.c for example.
>
> Yes ... and there are others which don't, for example qla2xxx and
> sym53c8xx.
well I don't care which way to go. I'd prefer a pointer to an
allocated sense buffer, but maybe that's just me.
Thomas.
--
Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessary a
good idea. [ RFC1925, 2.3 ]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-21 16:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-21 2:30 [PATCH 2/2] scsi: Use new __dma_buffer to align sense buffer in scsi_cmnd Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-12-21 10:33 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-21 13:16 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-12-21 13:30 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2007-12-21 14:00 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-12-21 16:35 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer [this message]
2007-12-21 21:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-12-21 16:57 ` Roland Dreier
2007-12-21 21:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-12-23 11:09 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-12-23 23:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-01-07 6:53 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-01-07 13:25 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-01-07 23:32 ` FUJITA Tomonori
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