Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git

Mark Lord
2007-10-18T03:44:59Z

Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, David Miller wrote:
>> I believe that we have enough of a limited set of accessors to
>> sg->page that we can more aggressively encode things in the lower
>> bits.
>>
>> I'm thinking of encoding the low two bits of sg->page as
>> follows:
...
> Yes, that sounds sane.

It would be good to have something soon-ish.
This "dead at boot time" issue is impacting the general ability to test
patches against latest -git in time for the current merge window.

:)