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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	arjanv@redhat.com, "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] block highmem zero bounce v14
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 11:44:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010921114448.D1924@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010916234307.A12270@suse.de> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0109161447390.29507-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> <20010917000012.B12270@suse.de>
In-Reply-To: <20010917000012.B12270@suse.de>; from axboe@suse.de on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 12:00:12AM +0200

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 12:00:12AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 16 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > >
> > > It's against 2.4.10-pre9 and can be found right here:
> > >
> > > *.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/patches/2.4.10-pre9/block-highmem-all-14
> > 
> > Jens, what's your feeling about the stability of these things, especially
> > wrt weird drivers?
> 
> One of the very first decisions I made wrt this patch was to make sure
> that weird/old drivers could keep on working exactly the way they do now
> and never have to worry about highmem stuff. 

unfortionatly, so far both megaraid and the 3ware driver broke. Megaraid is
easily fixable, but still. It shows that this patch is not without risk...




  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-09-21 15:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-16 21:43 [patch] block highmem zero bounce v14 Jens Axboe
2001-09-16 21:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-16 22:00   ` Jens Axboe
2001-09-16 23:10     ` Alan Cox
2001-09-16 23:13       ` Jens Axboe
2001-09-21 15:44     ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2001-09-21 16:13       ` Alan Cox
2001-09-21 16:39         ` spurious interrupt with ac kernel but not with vanilla 2.4.9 Luigi Genoni
2001-09-21 17:03           ` Alan Cox
2001-09-21 17:14             ` Luigi Genoni
2001-09-21 17:28               ` Alan Cox
2001-09-21 17:33                 ` Luigi Genoni
2001-09-22 14:39                 ` John Levon
2001-09-22 11:00       ` [patch] block highmem zero bounce v14 Jens Axboe
2001-09-22 11:18         ` Arjan van de Ven
2001-09-22 12:11           ` Jens Axboe
2001-09-22 16:32           ` Alan Cox
2001-09-22 16:35             ` Jens Axboe
2001-09-22 16:41               ` Alan Cox
2001-09-22 16:56                 ` Jens Axboe
2001-09-22 17:05                 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2001-09-20 23:43   ` David S. Miller
2001-09-21  5:56     ` Jens Axboe

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