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From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BK PATCH] SCSI -rc fixes for 2.6.10-rc3
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 14:55:04 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41BA2948.4030906@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041210201115.GD12581@suse.de>

Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 09 2004, James Bottomley wrote:
> 
>>This one is another set of small driver fixes
>>
>>It is available from:
> 
> 
> Here is one more. Currently imm uses page_address() which can crash on
> highmem. It's not directly doable to map the pages properly, at least
> not without changing some code. In lack of a ->bounce_highio member in
> the scsi host template, just set ->unchecked_isa_dma which will just
> bounce everything for us. imm isn't performance critical by any stretch
> of the imagination, so...
> 
> Usually I'd not encourage such a silly hack, but in lack of hardware for
> testing (who has it??), this should suffice as it is obviously correct.

I have a drive, but I'm not near a highmem machine atm.
I can test it next week if no one else does so.

-- 
~Randy

  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-10 22:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-10  3:56 [BK PATCH] SCSI -rc fixes for 2.6.10-rc3 James Bottomley
2004-12-10 20:11 ` Jens Axboe
2004-12-10 22:55   ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]
2004-12-11 14:46     ` James Bottomley
2004-12-11 17:22       ` Jens Axboe
2004-12-11 17:33         ` James Bottomley

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