IDE_BUILD_SGLIST

Section: (9)
Updated: 09 October 2005
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NAME

ide_build_sglist - map IDE scatter gather for DMA I/O  

SYNOPSIS

"SYNOPSIS"

int ide_build_sglist (ide_drive_t * drive, struct request * rq);  

ARGUMENTS

drive
the drive to build the DMA table for
rq
the request holding the sg list
 

DESCRIPTION

Perform the PCI mapping magic necessary to access the source or target buffers of a request via PCI DMA. The lower layers of the kernel provide the necessary cache management so that we can operate in a portable fashion


 

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