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Date:      Sun, 22 Feb 1998 17:19:08 -0700
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New SoftUpdates test kit 
Message-ID:  <199802230022.RAA20633@pluto.plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 22 Feb 1998 11:21:29 PST." <199802221921.LAA07939@dingo.cdrom.com> 

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>Ugh.  How else is a driver supposed to attach extra information to a 
>buf or group of bufs?  The b_driver field was the only clean way I 
>could implement request fragmentation in the wfd driver.

>From taking a 2 second look at the code, it seems that the problem is
that you are attempting to store information in struct buf that should
really be encapsulated in the atapi equivalent of "scsi_xfer" or as it
is in CAM, the CCB.  This structure would have a buf pointer in it.

--
Justin



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