From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>, Matt Reimer <mattjreimer@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] block: convert IDE to use blk_kmap helpers
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 19:02:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060216190259.GH29443@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602161008490.916@g5.osdl.org>
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 10:10:59AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Russell King wrote:
> > Linus - can we merge Tejun's patches so that we have an IDE subsystem
> > which works on ARM platforms please? If James wants to come up with
> > another solution later on, I'm sure we can transition all drivers
> > over to that new solution once we know what it is. Until then, can
> > we please fix the bug?
>
> I'm assuming this isn't a regression, and that it's just been that way
> forever. If so, I'm going to vote for it being merged after 2.6.16 is out.
> We don't need more new stuff, and I think PXA users can either apply the
> patches themselves, or wait a few weeks more..
>
> But if this is actually a regression from 2.6.15, I want to know more
> about it.
It's a long standing bug, so given that it can wait for post 2.6.16.
I just didn't want to have this situation continuing indefinitely.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-16 19:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-13 15:24 [PATCHSET] block: fix PIO cache coherency bug Tejun Heo
2006-01-13 15:24 ` [PATCH 5/8] block: convert libata to use blk_kmap helpers Tejun Heo
2006-01-13 15:24 ` [PATCH 4/8] block: convert IDE " Tejun Heo
2006-02-14 19:07 ` Matt Reimer
2006-02-15 2:05 ` Tejun Heo
2006-02-16 18:01 ` Russell King
2006-02-16 18:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-16 19:02 ` Russell King [this message]
2006-01-13 15:24 ` [PATCH 2/8] block: implement blk kmap helpers Tejun Heo
2006-01-13 15:24 ` [PATCH 3/8] block: convert bio kmap helpers to use blk_kmap helpers Tejun Heo
2006-01-13 15:24 ` [PATCH 1/8] highmem: include asm/kmap_types.h in linux/highmem.h Tejun Heo
2006-01-13 15:24 ` [PATCH 8/8] block: convert md to use blk_kmap helpers Tejun Heo
2006-01-13 15:24 ` [PATCH 7/8] block: convert block/rd.c " Tejun Heo
2006-01-13 15:24 ` [PATCH 6/8] block: convert scsi " Tejun Heo
2006-01-13 15:37 ` [PATCHSET] block: fix PIO cache coherency bug Jens Axboe
2006-01-13 15:47 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2006-01-13 15:50 ` James Bottomley
2006-01-13 18:20 ` Russell King
2006-01-13 18:35 ` James Bottomley
2006-01-13 19:06 ` Russell King
2006-02-22 8:27 ` Tejun Heo
2006-03-02 18:46 ` James Bottomley
2006-03-02 20:30 ` Russell King
2006-03-02 20:43 ` James Bottomley
2006-03-02 20:57 ` Russell King
2006-03-02 20:44 ` Jens Axboe
2006-05-29 19:17 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-05-30 11:19 ` Tejun Heo
2006-05-30 21:07 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2006-05-30 21:32 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-05-31 0:57 ` David S. Miller
2006-03-02 20:40 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-20 16:12 ` James Bottomley
2006-03-20 16:26 ` Tejun Heo
2006-03-20 16:33 ` James Bottomley
2006-03-20 16:40 ` Tejun Heo
2006-03-20 16:48 ` James Bottomley
2006-03-23 14:23 ` James Bottomley
2006-03-20 16:50 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-03-20 16:52 ` James Bottomley
2006-01-13 22:02 ` Russell King
2006-01-13 22:38 ` James Bottomley
2006-01-13 22:43 ` David S. Miller
2006-01-14 4:58 ` James Bottomley
2006-01-17 15:00 ` Jeff Garzik
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