From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 19:43:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 19:43:00 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:22922 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 19:42:50 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 16:43:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20010920.164301.76328081.davem@redhat.com> To: torvalds@transmeta.com Cc: axboe@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arjanv@redhat.com Subject: Re: [patch] block highmem zero bounce v14 From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: <20010916234307.A12270@suse.de> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.0 on Emacs 21.0 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Linus Torvalds 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. Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com