From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Ed Sweetman <ed.sweetman@wmich.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: why no cdda cdrom dma use in 2.6?
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 21:45:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030828194548.GG16684@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F4E5ACC.1090500@wmich.edu>
On Thu, Aug 28 2003, Ed Sweetman wrote:
> It seems like this is a win win patch for the cdrom that was heavily
> tested in 2.4 in the akpm tree. I'm just wondering why it was never
> incorporated into 2.5 and thus 2.6? It's a shame to not have it in the
> kernel by default.
>From my perspective, it would be fine to include in 2.6 right now. The
2.4 patch relied heavily on buffer_heads though, so you would have to
adapt the patch to bio first. Actually, it should be doable in a much
less hackish manner.
--
Jens Axboe
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2003-08-28 19:41 why no cdda cdrom dma use in 2.6? Ed Sweetman
2003-08-28 19:45 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
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