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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Arjan Van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] block highmem zero-bounce #17
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 15:10:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011019151023.D5509@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011018144047.E4825@suse.de> <jen12n4w1v.fsf@sykes.suse.de>
In-Reply-To: <jen12n4w1v.fsf@sykes.suse.de>

On Fri, Oct 19 2001, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> writes:
> 
> |> Patch is considered solid. Find it here:
> |> 
> |> *.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/patches/2.4.13-pre4/block-highmem-all-17.bz2
> 
> Your patch still makes bad use of struct scatterlist which is architecture
> dependent.  Either fix the definitions in asm-*/scatterlist.h or go back
> using a private struct.  Why did you switch to struct scatterlist in the
> first place??

What are you talking about? Please expand. struct scatterlist has very
intentionally been changed to its current look, and if an arch is not
uptodate please let me know.

Some archs may not have updated their PCI DMA interfaces yet, that's
another issue. This will come in time.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-19 13:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-18 12:40 [patch] block highmem zero-bounce #17 Jens Axboe
2001-10-19 13:08 ` Andreas Schwab
2001-10-19 13:10   ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2001-10-19 13:58     ` Andreas Schwab
2001-10-19 13:59       ` Jens Axboe
2001-10-19 13:13   ` Jens Axboe

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