From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S967345AbXEHR6v (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 13:58:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S967247AbXEHR6v (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 13:58:51 -0400 Received: from hancock.steeleye.com ([71.30.118.248]:54642 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S967047AbXEHR6t (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 13:58:49 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Fix old SCSI adapter crashes with CD-ROM (take 2) From: James Bottomley To: Alan Cox Cc: Jens Axboe , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20070508185359.01a1a18d@the-village.bc.nu> References: <20070508171710.1ac730cd@the-village.bc.nu> <20070508161444.GA4163@kernel.dk> <1178642376.3737.36.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <20070508184256.029cf8a4@the-village.bc.nu> <1178646426.3737.59.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <20070508185359.01a1a18d@the-village.bc.nu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 12:58:35 -0500 Message-Id: <1178647115.3737.62.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.3 (2.8.3-2.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 18:53 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > The ultimate goal is to be able to eliminate the unchecked_isa_dma flag > > entirely and have the block layer (or device mask allocations) fix all > > of this in every ULD. > > About time ;) Actually, I should point out (before those who did the work get justifiably irritated) that the overall goal is to remove the special case non-scatter/gather path from all the drivers ... eliminating the need to worry about DMA zone allocations is just a nice bonus as a side effect of sending everything through the block layer. James