Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261181AbTIOHex (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2003 03:34:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261186AbTIOHex (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2003 03:34:53 -0400 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:18586 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261181AbTIOHew (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2003 03:34:52 -0400 Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:34:45 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , torvalds@osdl.org, Alan Cox Subject: Re: 2.7 block ramblings (was Re: DMA for ide-scsi?) Message-ID: <20030915073445.GC27105@suse.de> References: <200309131101.h8DB1WNd021570@harpo.it.uu.se> <1063476275.8702.35.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030913184934.GB10047@gtf.org> <20030913190131.GD10047@gtf.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030913190131.GD10047@gtf.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 832 Lines: 22 On Sat, Sep 13 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Oh, and I'm pondering the best way to deliver out-of-bang ATA taskfiles > and SCSI cdbs to a device. (for the uninitiated, this is lower level > than block devices / cdrom devices / etc.) > > ... AF_BLOCK is not out of the question ;-) Eh... I wont comment on that. I think we are way into Garzik lala land there :) I'd prefer just keeping sg_io_hdr, but dumping sg. A fully fledged bsg (block sg) implementation. That way programs continue to work like before on ATAPI/SCSI, for ATA we can use it as a task file transport. -- Jens Axboe - 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/