Re: [patch] block highmem zero bounce v14

Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Fri, 21 Sep 2001 07:56:15 +0200


On Thu, Sep 20 2001, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
> Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 14:48:32 -0700 (PDT)
>
> Jens, what's your feeling about the stability of these things, especially
> wrt weird drivers?
>
> Ie do you think this is really a 2.4.x thing, or early 2.5.x?
>
> On my side of this work I feel that the 64-bit PCI dma infrastructure
> by itself is a safe merge in 2.4.11 or something like that.

I agree, and seriously hope that Linus will merge the pci64 patch in the
first 2.4.11-pre's. Then we can start looking at the block highmem
patch.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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