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On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 12:13:13PM +0300, Faik Uygur wrote: > On Sat, 15 May 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:> > > The IDR interface is a bit cumbersome. Even though you called > > idr_pre_get(), there's no guarantee that the memory which it preallocated > > is still present when you call idr_get_new().> > Thanks for the correction.> > > Is the kernel likely to ever have so many bus IDs that we actually need > > this patch? Or do you specifically want first-fit-from-zero for some > > reason?> > Actually there is no special need for this. It is just what i think would > be the expected behaviour. There was a thread two weeks ago about this issue: > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108370586601550&w=2 > > here is the updated patch: Nice, thanks, I've applied this to my trees. I tried doing this same patch a while ago, but missed the masking off the upper bits trick, and was wondering why my results were so strange... thanks again, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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