Re: [parisc-linux] Re: parisc scatterlist doesn't want page/offset

Matthew Wilcox
2001-11-16T15:26:01Z

On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 07:17:51AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 15:04:54 +0000
>
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 06:52:43AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> >
> > No, you must have page+offset because in the future the
> > "address" field of scatterlist is going to disappear
> > and _ONLY_ page+offset will be used.
>
> but _WHY_ in 2.4? this is ridiculous for something which is alleged to
> be a stable kernel.
>
> You have to add two members to a silly structure which nobody
> uses right now, that is so horrible. What affect on stability
> does that change have?
>
> This makes merging of Jen's Axboe's block highmem code back into
> 2.4.x painless. That is why.

so when jens' code is merged back into 2.4 we won't have to make any
changes to the arch dependent code?

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