Re: [PATCH] 2.4 IDE core for 2.5

[Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>]

On Tue, Jul 09 2002, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jul 09 2002, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > > > I've forward ported the 2.4 IDE core (well 2.4.19-pre10-ac2 to be exact)
> > > > > to 2.5.25. It consists of 7 separate patches:
> > > >
> > > > Fantastic! Seeing that the patches are bitkeeper generated, would it be
> > > > possible for you to make a repository available with the patches? (on
> > > > bkbits perhaps?) Would make it a lot easier for us bitkeeper users just to
> > > > pull from your repository... Especially once you update the patches...
> > >
> > > Okay, tired of fantastic ;-)
> > > This forward port has still broken PIO transfer on errors and really
> > > borken multi PIO writes, all due to buffer_head -> bio transition in 2.5.
> >
> > As I wrote in the initial posting, yes multi pio is broken _for multi
> > page bio's_. Where does 2.5 break pio transfers on error? If you are
> > talking about a 2.4 code base error, then I don't care, you need to tell
> > someone else :-)
> 
> PIO on error is broken _for multi page bio's_ .

Ok that falls into the same category as the multi pio one. I'll fix that
as well.

-- 
Jens Axboe