Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Dec 2001 17:44:45 +0100 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: bug in 2.5.1 |
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On Tue, Dec 18 2001, Peter Rival wrote: > Jens Axboe wrote: > > >On Tue, Dec 18 2001, Hans-Otto Ahl wrote: > > > >>Hans-Otto Ahl wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Jesper Juhl wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>> Hi chaps, sorry to inform you about a problem in 'ide-floppy' drivers > >>>>> and in the module as well. > >>>> > > > >Apply this patch > > > >*.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/patches/v2.5/2.5.1/bio-251-1.bz2 > > > >and ide-floppy should work again. > > > > > Anyone have any patches for DAC960? It doesn't compile, and I made the > > "seemingly" obvious changes, but when I insmod, it sits in > "(initializing)". This is on an Alpha AS1200 that I'm trying to use for > SPECsfs97 regression work... Any ideas?
DAC960 will require some non-trivial work. I would do it, but reading DAC960.[ch] makes my stomache bubble.
Note that it's not just buffer_head -> bio translation, it's also walking the multi-page bios on your own (or better yet, transition it to use blk_rq_map_sg) and adapting it to the pci dma mapping api.
-- Jens Axboe
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