Re: [patch] block highmem zero bounce v14

Arjan van de Ven
2001-09-21T15:44:49Z

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...