On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 06:16:41AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 10:33:26AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:30:08 +1100
> > Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > The sense buffer ins scsi_cmnd can nowadays be DMA'ed into directly
> > > by some low level drivers (that typically happens with USB mass
> > > storage).
> >
> > Should that not be fixed in USB storage by using pci_alloc_coherent on the
> > PCI device of the hub not peeing directly into kernel space ?
>
> That's what I said, but Ben seems fixated on this particular fix.
there are SCSI host drivers, which also DMA to the sense buffer like
sgiwd93.c for example.
Thomas.
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