From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] final SCSI updates for 2.6.24 merge window Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:16:43 -0600 Message-ID: <1202440603.3171.72.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1202432206.3171.53.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080207184606.03b28a9c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from accolon.hansenpartnership.com ([76.243.235.52]:54761 "EHLO accolon.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756565AbYBHDQq (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 22:16:46 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20080207184606.03b28a9c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-scsi , linux-kernel , Nick Piggin , dougg@torque.net On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 18:46 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:56:46 -0600 James Bottomley wrote: > > > Quite a bit of this is fixing things broken previously (the advansys fix > > is still pending resolution, but I'll send it as an -rc fix when we have > > it). There's the final elimination of all drivers that are esp based > > but don't use the scsi_esp core (that's mostly m68k and alpha). Plus > > the usual bunch of driver updates and the addition of a new enclosure > > services driver and the corresponding ULD. > > Sob. Can we please merge "Convert SG from nopage to fault"? It has been > sent three times, the first time was Dec 5 last year and it has thus far > received the lead balloon treatment. Despite my explicit request for > consideration last time I sent it > > If there is no movement here then I have to carry the moderately intrusive > mm-remove-nopage.patch for another N months and we need to watch out for > new ->nopage implementations popping up etc. I agree ... I've pinged Doug privately, this is publicly. Unfortunately, it is an intrusive change and needs testing .. I just don't have the tools that do this for SG. James