From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BK PATCH] SCSI -rc fixes for 2.6.10-rc3
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 18:22:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041211172202.GD3033@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1102776407.5688.4.camel@mulgrave>
On Sat, Dec 11 2004, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 14:55 -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> > I have a drive, but I'm not near a highmem machine atm.
> > I can test it next week if no one else does so.
>
> So would you be amenable to fixing it properly? It looks like what
> needs to happen is that it needs to accept its commands into the
> scsi_pointer with page and offset (scsi_pointer doesn't have these
> fields, but you could probably cast in ptr and dma_handle). Then do a
> kmap/kunmap around imm_in() and imm_out() when it's operating on
> SCp.ptr.
Yep, that would be the optimal. But still, given the hardware, I feel
the hacky workaround would be acceptable. If Randy wants to fix it
properly being able to test it, perfect.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-11 17:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-10 3:56 [BK PATCH] SCSI -rc fixes for 2.6.10-rc3 James Bottomley
2004-12-10 20:11 ` Jens Axboe
2004-12-10 22:55 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-12-11 14:46 ` James Bottomley
2004-12-11 17:22 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2004-12-11 17:33 ` James Bottomley
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