From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 01:56:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 01:56:11 -0400 Received: from fe170.worldonline.dk ([212.54.64.199]:6917 "HELO fe170.worldonline.dk") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 01:56:03 -0400 Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 07:56:15 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: "David S. Miller" Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arjanv@redhat.com Subject: Re: [patch] block highmem zero bounce v14 Message-ID: <20010921075615.A586@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20010916234307.A12270@suse.de> <20010920.164301.76328081.davem@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010920.164301.76328081.davem@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 20 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Linus Torvalds > Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 14:48:32 -0700 (PDT) > > Jens, what's your feeling about the stability of these things, especially > wrt weird drivers? > > Ie do you think this is really a 2.4.x thing, or early 2.5.x? > > On my side of this work I feel that the 64-bit PCI dma infrastructure > by itself is a safe merge in 2.4.11 or something like that. I agree, and seriously hope that Linus will merge the pci64 patch in the first 2.4.11-pre's. Then we can start looking at the block highmem patch. -- Jens Axboe