Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

Change the blk_rq_map_user() and blk_rq_map_kern() interface to require
a previously allocated request to be passed in. This is both more efficient
for multiple iterations of mapping data to the same request, and it is also
a much nicer API.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

Adapted from a patch in SuSE's kernel SRPM.
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>

Adapted from a patch in SuSE's kernel SRPM.
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!