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Date:      Sun, 22 Feb 1998 11:21:29 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com>
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New SoftUpdates test kit 
Message-ID:  <199802221921.LAA07939@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 22 Feb 1998 11:04:14 MST." <199802221804.LAA06017@narnia.plutotech.com> 

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> It has been discussed before that b_driver* should go away.  The
> CAM SCSI layer does not use these fields which means that the last
> reference in our code is going away.  Please don't add another
> instance.

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.

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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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