From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 07:00:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 07:00:12 -0400 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:64521 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 06:59:55 -0400 Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 13:00:00 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel , "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [patch] block highmem zero bounce v14 Message-ID: <20010922130000.A632@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20010916234307.A12270@suse.de> <20010917000012.B12270@suse.de> <20010921114448.D1924@devserv.devel.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010921114448.D1924@devserv.devel.redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22i X-OS: Linux 2.2.20 i686 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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