[8679] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: sc_data_direction -- will we require it?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Wed Apr 19 06:57:09 2000
To: eric@andante.org (Eric Youngdale)
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 11:51:45 +0100 (BST)
Cc: mdharm-scsi@one-eyed-alien.net (Matthew Dharm),
linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu (The Linux SCSI list)
In-Reply-To: <004401bfa9a2$b0468170$0f17a8c0@eric.home> from "Eric Youngdale" at Apr 18, 2000 09:57:59 PM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> Yes, this is a known limitation of the generics interface. Perhaps Doug
> has further comments. I am wondering whether we need some sort of table
> (not unlike what you already have) to set the data direction in the generics
> interface if it isn't specified by the user. The major bugaboo is going to
> be vendor specific commands, as tables are not going to be of much
> assistance here.
For the general commands IBM have a pretty complete table in the serveraid
driver. We maybe ought to actually put the table into sg instead of duplicated
around all sorts of drivers ?
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