Re: [patch] block highmem zero-bounce #17

Jens Axboe
2001-10-19T13:59:55Z

> |> 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.
>
> Currently ia64 does not build due to this.

Then the IA64 folks need to catch up. There's nothing new in this, this
is how stuff usually happens. In short, I don't see the problem.

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Jens Axboe