From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, andrea@suse.de
Subject: Re: [patch] zero-bounce highmem I/O
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 07:52:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010816075227.G4352@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010815140740.A4352@suse.de> <20010815.053524.48804759.davem@redhat.com> <20010815151052.C4352@suse.de> <20010815.070204.39155321.davem@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010815.070204.39155321.davem@redhat.com>
On Wed, Aug 15 2001, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 15:10:52 +0200
>
> On Wed, Aug 15 2001, David S. Miller wrote:
> > The only truly problematic area is the alt_address thing.
> > It is would be a nice thing to rip this eyesore out of the scsi
> > layer anyways.
>
> The SCSI issue was exactly what was on my mind, and is indeed the reason
> why I didn't go all the way and did a complete conversion there. The
> SCSI layer is _not_ very clean in this regard, didn't exactly enjoy this
> part of the work...
>
> I just took a quick look at this, and I think I can make this
> alt_address thing into a scsi-layer-specific mechanism and
> thus be able to safely remove it from struct scatterlist.
>
> Would you like me to whip up such a set of changes? I'll be
> more than happy to work on it.
Yes please, that'd be great.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-16 5:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-15 7:50 [patch] zero-bounce highmem I/O Jens Axboe
2001-08-15 9:11 ` David S. Miller
2001-08-15 9:17 ` Jens Axboe
2001-08-15 9:26 ` Jens Axboe
2001-08-15 10:22 ` David S. Miller
2001-08-15 11:13 ` Jens Axboe
2001-08-15 11:47 ` David S. Miller
2001-08-15 12:07 ` Jens Axboe
2001-08-15 12:35 ` David S. Miller
2001-08-15 13:10 ` Jens Axboe
2001-08-15 14:25 ` David S. Miller
2001-08-16 11:51 ` Jens Axboe
2001-08-16 11:56 ` David S. Miller
2001-08-16 12:03 ` Jens Axboe
2001-08-16 12:14 ` Gerd Knorr
2001-08-16 12:27 ` David S. Miller
2001-08-16 12:48 ` Jens Axboe
2001-08-16 12:56 ` Jens Axboe
2001-08-16 13:08 ` David S. Miller
2001-08-16 12:34 ` David S. Miller
2001-08-16 13:35 ` Gerd Knorr
2001-08-16 14:15 ` David S. Miller
2001-08-16 12:28 ` kill alt_address (Re: [patch] zero-bounce highmem I/O) David S. Miller
2001-08-15 14:02 ` [patch] zero-bounce highmem I/O David S. Miller
2001-08-16 5:52 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2001-08-15 19:20 ` Gérard Roudier
2001-08-16 8:12 ` David S. Miller
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2001-08-16 14:56 ` Alan Cox
2001-08-17 10:18 ` Gerd Knorr
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