[PATCH v2 6/8] scsi/ipr: Use sgl_alloc_order() and sgl_free_order()

[Brian King]

On 10/30/2017 03:37 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-10-18 at 15:57 -0500, Brian King wrote:
>> On 10/17/2017 01:19 AM, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>>> On 10/17/2017 12:49 AM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>>>> [ ... ]
>>>
>>> Not sure if this is a valid conversion.
>>> Originally the driver would allocate a single buffer; with this buffer
>>> we have two distinct buffers.
>>> Given that this is used to download the microcode I'm not sure if this
>>> isn't a hardware-dependent structure which requires a single buffer
>>> including the sglist.
>>> Brian, can you shed some light here?
>>
>> The struct ipr_sglist is not a hardware defined data structure, so on initial
>> glance, this should be OK. I'll load it up and give it a try to make sure
>> it doesn't break code download.
> 
> Hello Brian,
> 
> Have you already obtained any test results?

Bart,

Yes. I tried this out on an ipr adapter and it looks fine.

Acked-by: Brian King <brking at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Thanks,

Brian

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