From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: willy@debian.org
Cc: grundler@puffin.external.hp.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Re: parisc scatterlist doesn't want page/offset
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 07:17:51 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011116.071751.12999342.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011116150454.J25491@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 06:52:43AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> No, you must have page+offset because in the future the
> "address" field of scatterlist is going to disappear
> and _ONLY_ page+offset will be used.
but _WHY_ in 2.4? this is ridiculous for something which is alleged to
be a stable kernel.
You have to add two members to a silly structure which nobody
uses right now, that is so horrible. What affect on stability
does that change have?
This makes merging of Jen's Axboe's block highmem code back into
2.4.x painless. That is why.
Franks a lot,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-16 15:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-16 7:30 Grant Grundler
2001-11-16 8:33 ` Jens Axboe
2001-11-16 14:52 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-16 15:04 ` [parisc-linux] " Matthew Wilcox
2001-11-16 15:17 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2001-11-16 15:26 ` Matthew Wilcox
2001-11-16 15:33 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-16 15:43 ` Matthew Wilcox
2001-11-16 15:47 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-16 16:44 ` Grant Grundler
2001-11-16 17:31 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-16 16:32 ` Grant Grundler
2001-11-16 16:57 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-16 17:06 ` Grant Grundler
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