From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi_execute_async should take a struct scatterlist *
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 18:43:20 +0100
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On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 08:14:40PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Crrently scsi_execute_async takes a void *buffer argument that can
> be either interpreted as a kernel buffer or scatterlist pointer
> depending on what the use_sg argument is set to.  There is no user
> of the use_sg == 0 kernel buffer case and we should remove it in
> favour of type safety.
> 
> And yes, long-term we should get rid of the current scsi_execute_async
> interface entirely, struct scatterlist * doesn't make sense as a data
> structure above the block layer.

Actually I just noticed osst is using the non-sg variant.  patch
withdrawn.