Re: [patch] block highmem zero bounce v14

[Jens Axboe]

On Fri, Sep 21 2001, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 12:00:12AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 16 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > >
> > > > It's against 2.4.10-pre9 and can be found right here:
> > > >
> > > > *.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/patches/2.4.10-pre9/block-highmem-all-14
> > > 
> > > Jens, what's your feeling about the stability of these things, especially
> > > wrt weird drivers?
> > 
> > One of the very first decisions I made wrt this patch was to make sure
> > that weird/old drivers could keep on working exactly the way they do now
> > and never have to worry about highmem stuff. 
> 
> unfortionatly, so far both megaraid and the 3ware driver broke. Megaraid is
> easily fixable, but still. It shows that this patch is not without risk...

megaraid broke because can_dma_32 was enabled by mistake.

jens