From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Boaz Harrosh Subject: Re: [patch 0/4] aha152x.c - Cleanup, need help in testing and auditing Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:12:19 +0300 Message-ID: <46A5D083.50803@panasas.com> References: <4695F76F.5000305@panasas.com> <20070712135750.2a4a4a54.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <469B38CC.50501@panasas.com> <20070717171607.ffc278eb.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <469DDD74.2060208@panasas.com> <20070718103320.4b6ad7b3.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <20070718145818.8eebbd66.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <20070718194335.e21a01e5.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <20070718200315.3adcd194.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <469F616D.1000909@panasas.com> <20070719083719.33d8994c.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <469F89FE.4080900@panasas.com> <20070719104930.7ae87df8.rdunlap@xenotime.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from gw-colo-pa.panasas.com ([66.238.117.130]:16041 "EHLO cassoulet.panasas.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762386AbXGXKMg (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jul 2007 06:12:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070719104930.7ae87df8.rdunlap@xenotime.net> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Randy Dunlap Cc: James Bottomley , Christoph Hellwig , scsi , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22J=FCrgen_E=2E_F?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?ischer=22?= Randy Dunlap wrote: > I prefer either of the !HIGHMEM or slave_alloc changes to adding > a BUG_ON(). However, the SCSI people likely won't want to use the > slave_alloc() change because then the driver may never get fixed. > (Of course, it hasn't got fixed with the BUG happening either.) > > Anyway, I'll re-read Documentation/DMA*.txt to see if I can fix it. > > --- Hi Randy. could you please send me the patch you have with the .slave_alloc solution for now. I would like to revise the patchset and send them for inclusion now. They do fix some problems and let users work. We can put a big fat warring and explanation about highmem in the commit log comments so people can watch out. Thanks Boaz