From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Fix old SCSI adapter crashes with CD-ROM (take 2)
Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 12:58:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1178647115.3737.62.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070508185359.01a1a18d@the-village.bc.nu>
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 18:53 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > The ultimate goal is to be able to eliminate the unchecked_isa_dma flag
> > entirely and have the block layer (or device mask allocations) fix all
> > of this in every ULD.
>
> About time ;)
Actually, I should point out (before those who did the work get
justifiably irritated) that the overall goal is to remove the special
case non-scatter/gather path from all the drivers ... eliminating the
need to worry about DMA zone allocations is just a nice bonus as a side
effect of sending everything through the block layer.
James
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-08 17:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-08 16:17 [PATCH]: Fix old SCSI adapter crashes with CD-ROM (take 2) Alan Cox
2007-05-08 16:14 ` Jens Axboe
2007-05-08 16:39 ` James Bottomley
2007-05-08 16:40 ` Jens Axboe
2007-05-08 16:52 ` James Bottomley
2007-05-08 17:15 ` Jens Axboe
2007-05-08 16:46 ` Mike Christie
2007-05-08 16:52 ` Jens Axboe
2007-05-08 17:42 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-08 17:47 ` James Bottomley
2007-05-08 17:53 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-08 17:58 ` James Bottomley [this message]
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