From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: [PATCH] aic7xxx bouncing over 4G Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 16:29:40 -0800 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20021221002940.GM25000@holomorphy.com> References: <200212210012.gBL0Cng21338@eng2.beaverton.ibm.com> <176730000.1040430221@aslan.btc.adaptec.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <176730000.1040430221@aslan.btc.adaptec.com> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Cc: Janet Morgan , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org At some point in the past, Janet Morgan had her attribution removed: >> I have an Adaptec AIC-7897 Ultra2 SCSI adapter on a system with 8G >> of physical memory. The adapter is using bounce buffers when DMA'ing >> to memory >4G because of a bug in the aic7xxx driver. On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 05:23:42PM -0700, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > This has been fixed in both the aic7xxx and aic79xx drivers for some > time. The problem is that these later revisions have not been integrated > into the mainline trees. Could you split up the new revisions into a series of reviewable patches with clearly-defined individual scope and descriptive changelog entries and post them (in your mail message, not as URL's) please? I actually use this driver at home, so I'd like to be able to understand what's going on with it. I suspect various others are of like mind. Thanks, Bill