Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932260Ab1CRBAa (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:00:30 -0400 Received: from sh.osrg.net ([192.16.179.4]:59075 "EHLO sh.osrg.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932230Ab1CRBAY (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:00:24 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 09:59:39 +0900 To: oakad@yahoo.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp, maximlevitsky@gmail.com, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] scatterlist: new helper functions From: FUJITA Tomonori In-Reply-To: <158286.40597.qm@web37607.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20110316153321.8345606a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <158286.40597.qm@web37607.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20110318095916U.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (sh.osrg.net [192.16.179.4]); Fri, 18 Mar 2011 09:59:40 +0900 (JST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 744 Lines: 11 On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 23:41:13 -0700 (PDT) Alex Dubov wrote: > Considering the comments from Fujita and James, I suppose it will be best > for now to fold the new sg functions into the memstick patch and > investigate how the block layer functionality can be used to a greater > utility at some later time. I suspect that such 'some later time' never come (especially for old hardware). So I would prefer to merge the properly designed driver rather than the current hacky driver. -- 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/