Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:42:01 +0900
To: bharrosh@panasas.com
Cc: tj@kernel.org, James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com,
       linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, axboe@kernel.dk,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/17] scsi: replace custom rq mapping with
 blk_rq_map_kern_sgl()
From: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:00:44 +0300
Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> wrote:

> On 04/01/2009 04:44 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > Impact: hack removal
> > 
> > SCSI needs to map sgl into rq for kernel PC requests; however, block
> > API didn't have such feature so it used its own rq mapping function
> > which hooked into block/bio internals and is generally considered an
> > ugly hack.  The private function may also produce requests which are
> > bigger than queue per-rq limits.
> > 
> > Block blk_rq_map_kern_sgl().  Kill the private implementation and use
> > it.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> 
> James, TOMO
> 
> what happened to Tomo's patches that removes all this after fixing up
> all users (sg.c)?
> 
> 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.
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