> > Long answer - it doesn't take this path.
> >
> > Different bug, both want fixing I suspect.
>
> Actually, it does take this path ... one of the things we've been doing
> in SCSI is slowly eliminating the old direct submission paths in favour
> of sending everything through the correct block layer paths.
> scsi_execute(), which the sr ioctl uses is just such a fixed path ...
> the bug is that it should be bouncing the request but because of an
> oversight (which Mike's patch corrects) it doesn't.
Well if Mike's patch is going in and it fixes this then I'll be more than
happy to withdraw the pending one.
>
> The ultimate goal is to be able to eliminate the unchecked_isa_dma flag
> entirely and have the block layer (or device mask allocations) fix all
> of this in every ULD.
About time ;)
Alan
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