From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4 IDE core for 2.5 Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 15:13:21 +0200 (MET DST) Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: References: <20020709125656.GC1940@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20020709125656.GC1940@suse.de> List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jens Axboe Cc: Anton Altaparmakov , Linux Kernel , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Tue, Jul 09 2002, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > > On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > > I've forward ported the 2.4 IDE core (well 2.4.19-pre10-ac2 to be exact) > > > > to 2.5.25. It consists of 7 separate patches: > > > > > > Fantastic! Seeing that the patches are bitkeeper generated, would it be > > > possible for you to make a repository available with the patches? (on > > > bkbits perhaps?) Would make it a lot easier for us bitkeeper users just to > > > pull from your repository... Especially once you update the patches... > > > > Okay, tired of fantastic ;-) > > This forward port has still broken PIO transfer on errors and really > > borken multi PIO writes, all due to buffer_head -> bio transition in 2.5. > > As I wrote in the initial posting, yes multi pio is broken _for multi > page bio's_. Where does 2.5 break pio transfers on error? If you are > talking about a 2.4 code base error, then I don't care, you need to tell > someone else :-) PIO on error is broken _for multi page bio's_ . > > Jens, you would better spend your time on enhancing block layer to > > allow me fixing them cleanly... > > I'll fix the bio support issue for pio multi write, it's in the next > version. Okay, will see... :) -- Bartlomiej