Subject: Re: VS4000 SCSI: status
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 03/08/2000 22:07:51
> On Mon, 06 Mar 2000 19:26:33 -0800
> Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com> wrote:
>
> > The problem is that the ncr53c9x MI code doesn't pass a ptr to the proc
> > so I can't pass it to bus_dmamap_load. I didn't feel like changing the
> > MI interface.
>
> ...and, in fact, it's not appropriate to pass the proc * in, because the
> code assumes kernel addresses, because physio() calls vmapbuf() :-)
>
Yes, that is a problem here: All other drivers assume that
vmapbuf/vunmapbuf do _not_ do anything, otherwise they do not work with
raw I/O.
-- Ragge