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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] block highmem zero bounce v14
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 13:00:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010922130000.A632@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010916234307.A12270@suse.de> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0109161447390.29507-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> <20010917000012.B12270@suse.de> <20010921114448.D1924@devserv.devel.redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010921114448.D1924@devserv.devel.redhat.com>

On Fri, Sep 21 2001, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 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...

megaraid broke because can_dma_32 was enabled by mistake.

jens

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-09-22 11:00 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
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       ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2001-09-22 11:18         ` [patch] block highmem zero bounce v14 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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