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Re: sc_data_direction -- will we require it?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Dharm)
Wed Apr 19 15:30:27 2000
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 12:28:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-scsi@one-eyed-alien.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Eric Youngdale <eric@andante.org>,
The Linux SCSI list <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
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On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 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 ?
This sounds like an excellent idea. Is there any chance of getting this
in before 2.4?
Matt Dharm
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