From: Grant Grundler <grundler@puffin.external.hp.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: willy@debian.org, 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 09:32:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200111161632.JAA25977@puffin.external.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> of "Fri, 16 Nov 2001 07:33:28 PST." <20011116.073328.129356309.davem@redhat.com>
"David S. Miller" wrote:
> Part of the criteria to whether we merge back Jens' code is
> if the ports, given reasonable notice (ie. take this as your notice)
> have added in the support for page+offset pairs to their pci_map_sg
> code.
That is what willy was talking about.
You asking folks to muck with what's supposed to be working code.
> I suggest you do this now, it is totally painless. I would almost
> classify it as a mindless edit.
Adding two members to a struct is not the problem.
The problem is revisiting every usage of ->address in the DMA code
and telling driver writers they should be using page+offset.
grant
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-16 16:32 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
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 [this message]
2001-11-16 16:57 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-16 17:06 ` Grant Grundler
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