In message <004301bf9512$50905750$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, eric@andante
.org writes:
> scsi_malloc() is really only to be used in allocating DMA-safe memory
>for bounce buffers and other such structures.
>
> scsi_init_malloc() is essentially just a wrapper around kmalloc().
scsi_init_malloc() existed because I wanted SCSI device allocation to be
entirely dynamic, and in early Linux, kmalloc() didn't work until after
the drivers had initialized.
>you just need some general purpose memory, use kmalloc(). In the 2.3 series
>kernel there is no longer a scsi_init_malloc() function - everything that
>used it now uses kmalloc instead.
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