From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
To: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>,
SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ADVANSYS] Add basic highmem/DMA support
Date: 24 Jun 2004 08:00:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1088082044.1959.2.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40DAC485.2090404@torque.net>
On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 07:09, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> Your patch fixed the PCI wide problem. The attached incorporates
> your fix and also fixes the ISA oops. So now all my advansys cards
> work.
Well, damn, I was afraid of that.
Unfortunately, that patch working is a symptom of deep malaise within
the driver. It means that these segments are used in some way in its
internals and virt_to_bus and bus_to_virt translations occur all over
it. It also means that the DMA API conversion really isn't effective.
James
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-24 13:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-08 0:39 [ADVANSYS] Add basic highmem/DMA support Herbert Xu
2004-05-19 10:38 ` Herbert Xu
2004-05-31 18:02 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-21 8:41 ` Douglas Gilbert
2004-06-21 14:28 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-22 0:35 ` Douglas Gilbert
2004-06-23 6:35 ` Douglas Gilbert
2004-06-23 14:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-23 15:51 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-24 12:09 ` Douglas Gilbert
2004-06-24 13:00 ` James Bottomley [this message]
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