Re: [PATCH] Re: 2.5.3-pre1 compile error

Andre Hedrick (andre@linuxdiskcert.org)
Tue, 15 Jan 2002 17:06:06 -0800 (PST)


Well if you look at it closely, that function.

"ide_raw_build_sglist()"

is not called except from the user-space diagnostics ioctl

You that is getting called with from a BIO request, there will be major
request completion problems.

That is there to allow a future "Alex Viro" suggestion be considered.

On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, David S. Miller wrote:

> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 16:43:58 -0800 (PST)
>
> If it's not in the IDE driver, I'm at a loss.
>
> That "#if 1" buisness in the new ide-dma.c code looks
> really suspicious...

Andre Hedrick
Linux Disk Certification Project Linux ATA Development

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