Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966241AbbD2HbH (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Apr 2015 03:31:07 -0400 Received: from mail-wg0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:34717 "EHLO mail-wg0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966130AbbD2HbE (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Apr 2015 03:31:04 -0400 Message-ID: <554088B4.2020804@plexistor.com> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 10:31:00 +0300 From: Boaz Harrosh User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Bottomley , Akinobu Mita CC: Andrew Morton , LKML , Arnd Bergmann , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" , "Nicholas A. Bellinger" , target-devel@vger.kernel.org, Parisc List Subject: Re: [PATCH] scatterlist: enable sg chaining for all architectures References: <1429973776-7499-1-git-send-email-akinobu.mita@gmail.com> <20150428142743.578d1c930aca013b596d7546@linux-foundation.org> <1430259419.2181.26.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <1430273746.2181.49.camel@HansenPartnership.com> In-Reply-To: <1430273746.2181.49.camel@HansenPartnership.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 588 Lines: 20 On 04/29/2015 05:15 AM, James Bottomley wrote: > > Perhaps the best thing to do is just fix target and call it quits? > Right! drivers write code for sg_chaining and on ARCHs that do not support it the code just works. Only the max_sg is smaller and the chaining code never kicks in and is dead code for these ARCHs. > James Cheers Boaz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/