From: akepner@sgi.com
To: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>,
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>,
Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3 v6] IB: expand ib_umem_get() prototype
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 14:29:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080408212912.GI29410@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <adar6dgm8yi.fsf@cisco.com>
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 12:40:21PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> All of this looks good to me, and I'm happy we are finally fixing this
> up. However, now that it is finally ready to merge, I started thinking
> about the libmthca changes required to handle this, and I realized that
> we can actually avoid this:
> .....
> with my proposed change, the only difference is:
>
> new kernel, old userspace: current behavior (subtle failure on Altix),
> plus print a warning telling people to
> update userspace.
> ....
>
> Andrew: if Arthur agrees with this, please roll the patch below into the
> current IB patch you have as part of the dma attrs series.
Sounds fine to me, Roland.
Acked-by: Arthur Kepner <akepner@sgi.com>
--
Arthur
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-08 21:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-01 1:37 [PATCH 3/3 v6] IB: expand ib_umem_get() prototype akepner
2008-04-08 19:40 ` Roland Dreier
2008-04-08 21:29 ` akepner [this message]
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