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    [SCSI] Let scsi_cmnd->cmnd use request->cmd buffer · 64a87b24
    Boaz Harrosh authored
    
    
     - struct scsi_cmnd had a 16 bytes command buffer of its own.
       This is an unnecessary duplication and copy of request's
       cmd. It is probably left overs from the time that scsi_cmnd
       could function without a request attached. So clean that up.
    
     - Once above is done, few places, apart from scsi-ml, needed
       adjustments due to changing the data type of scsi_cmnd->cmnd.
    
     - Lots of drivers still use MAX_COMMAND_SIZE. So I have left
       that #define but equate it to BLK_MAX_CDB. The way I see it
       and is reflected in the patch below is.
       MAX_COMMAND_SIZE - means: The longest fixed-length (*) SCSI CDB
                          as per the SCSI standard and is not related
                          to the implementation.
       BLK_MAX_CDB.     - The allocated space at the request level
    
     - I have audit all ISA drivers and made sure none use ->cmnd in a DMA
       Operation. Same audit was done by Andi Kleen.
    
    (*)fixed-length here means commands that their size can be determined
       by their opcode and the CDB does not carry a length specifier, (unlike
       the VARIABLE_LENGTH_CMD(0x7f) command). This is actually not exactly
       true and the SCSI standard also defines extended commands and
       vendor specific commands that can be bigger than 16 bytes. The kernel
       will support these using the same infrastructure used for VARLEN CDB's.
       So in effect MAX_COMMAND_SIZE means the maximum size command
       scsi-ml supports without specifying a cmd_len by ULD's
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
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