From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id fBJKuhR01002 for linux-mips-outgoing; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 12:56:43 -0800 Received: from idiom.com (root@idiom.com [216.240.32.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id fBJKucX00999 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 12:56:38 -0800 Received: (from espin@localhost) by idiom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA42356; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 11:53:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 11:53:18 -0800 From: Geoffrey Espin To: Pete Popov Cc: James Simmons , "Gleb O. Raiko" , linux-mips Subject: Re: kmalloc/pci_alloc and skbuff's Message-ID: <20011219115318.A12344@idiom.com> References: <3C205853.EE642541@niisi.msk.ru> <20011219105633.B54722@idiom.com> <1008789145.31066.140.camel@zeus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <1008789145.31066.140.camel@zeus>; from Pete Popov on Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 11:12:25AM -0800 Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk > > Currently, my private pci_alloc/free_consistent() routines manage > FYI, this is not an isolated issue. We deal with a number of > architectures and we've seen this problem with other arches and system > controllers as well. A 'generic' solution would be nice and probably > necessary at some point. 2.5 would be a good place to do it, if only > someone would volunteer ;-) [Pete] Thanks for the reassurance. Can one include one's own arch/mips/korva/skbuff.c? But with network.o being a monolithic blob .o instead of a .a, seems like patching the one file is not feasible. I tried tweaking $(HEAD) but then stumbled onto this. How does one package such a work-around? Include a patch file in the LSP, which gets automatically run to munge on kernel sources? Or will linux-mips.sf.net accept a patch for net/core/skbuff.c? Geoff -- Geoffrey Espin espin@idiom.com