Re: [PATCH] Make ide-scsi compile in 2.5

[Skip Ford <skip.ford@verizon.net>]

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Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> ide-scsi doesn't compile currently in 2.5.x. This patch fixes it in a 
> rather hackish way by adding some kmap_atomic()s.  It would be 
> probably better to kmap earlier in process context in the request 
> function instead, but I leave this to the people who know more 
> about IDE/block layer than me (but apparently not compile ide-scsi..)
> I'm also not totally convinced that it is deadlock free here to use
> KM_BOUNCE_READ here, it may be safer to add a new bounce type. 
> You have been warned. 
> 
> I have only tested it without highmem and it works for me. 
> 
> Hopefully there will be eventually a better fix, but for now it 
> allows to burn (and mount if you use /dev/scd* for ide) CDs under 2.5 again. 

There was a brief period when 2.5 was released and changes went in that
it didn't compile.  Then that was fixed, but it couldn't mount or burn,
but that was also fixed.

I burned a CD a few days ago and it worked fine.  Maybe you have a
partial patch hanging around or something.

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