From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sergei Shtylyov Subject: Re: [PATCH] avoid releasing twice the same region on ide_release_iomio_dma() Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:22:08 +0400 Message-ID: <44C60CF0.8030008@ru.mvista.com> References: <20060724193031.GA18463@cathedrallabs.org> <44C5264D.4040609@ru.mvista.com> <87f94c370607241423g71bd17f9tb3b2e4fcf0cbeb5d@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from homer.mvista.com ([63.81.120.155]:37208 "EHLO imap.sh.mvista.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751158AbWGYMXV (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:23:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87f94c370607241423g71bd17f9tb3b2e4fcf0cbeb5d@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Greg Freemyer Cc: Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Hello. Greg Freemyer wrote: >> dma_base2 should go away altogether -- this is the IDE >> maintainer's opinion: >> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&m=114345699807546&w=2 >> I have posted this patch doing this back in March: >> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&m=114357441529834&w=2 >> and it was in the -mm tree for some months but has been removed >> recently -- I still need to coordinate it with SGI. > IDE is officially un-maintained as of a couple weeks ago. (And since > April in reality). > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ide&m=115201353310421&w=2 > That is likely why your patch disappeared. It didn't disappear. It was conflicting with one of Alan's patches and needed consent from SGI folks. > Further Alan Cox and Jeff > Garzik are trying to replace the whole IDE subsystem with a libata-ide > subsystem, so IIRC major patches to IDE are being bit-bucketed. Not if you send them to Andrew Morton. :-) > Greg WBR, Sergei