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From: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, amhetre@nvidia.com
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, ulf.hansson@linaro.org,
	herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, mmaddireddy@nvidia.com,
	Snikam@nvidia.com, adrian.hunter@intel.com,
	linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	vdumpa@nvidia.com, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scatterlist: Update size type to support greater then 4GB size.
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 22:49:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5f70fc16-e3cd-37c1-e7ed-e131ad79d387@grimberg.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181211.222950.1995970751331458343.davem@davemloft.net>


>>   struct nvme_sgl_desc {
>>   	__le64	addr;
>> -	__le32	length;
>> +	__le64	length;
>>   	__u8	rsvd[3];
>>   	__u8	type;
>>   };
> 
> Isn't this a device or protocol defined datastructure?  You can't just
> change it like this.

You're correct, we can't...
[Replied before seeing this issue was already highlighted]

The positive side is that it can safely be removed without affecting the
rest of the patch...

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-12  6:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-12  6:24 [PATCH] scatterlist: Update size type to support greater then 4GB size Ashish Mhetre
2018-12-12  6:29 ` David Miller
2018-12-12  6:49   ` Sagi Grimberg [this message]
2018-12-12  7:45     ` Ashish Mhetre
2018-12-12  6:46 ` Sagi Grimberg
2018-12-12  7:51 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2018-12-12  8:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-12-24  8:07   ` Ashish Mhetre
2018-12-14 14:13 ` kbuild test robot
2018-12-14 14:13 ` kbuild test robot

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