From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 03:51:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 03:50:06 -0500 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:62615 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 2 Dec 2001 19:05:47 -0500 Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 16:05:38 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20011202.160538.27781249.davem@redhat.com> To: anton@samba.org Cc: axboe@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.5: PCI scatter gather list change From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20011202153553.B5130@krispykreme> In-Reply-To: <20011202153553.B5130@krispykreme> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.0 on Emacs 21.0 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Anton Blanchard Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 15:35:53 +1100 I dont care too much either way, but if this change is here to stay I'll let the non intel maintainers know so they can fix up their pci dma code. Ummm, platforms need to support this format even in 2.4.x If PAGE is not NULL, "address" applies, else the PAGE+OFFSET pair applies. We'll kill "address" very soon in 2.5.x, but it has to stay around for compatibility in 2.4.x Look at sparc64 and x86 in 2.4.x, they expect and handle it correctly already. IA-64 fixed up their stuff recently too.