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SubjectRe: [PATCH] 2.3.14: bug-fix for raw IO error recovery
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:

>Can we do this a different way? If we can add a predicate macro

Sure ;).

>PAGE_VALID_FOR_IO(struct page *page, dev_t dev), then we can use that
>instead.

Ok, agreed. I thought to something similar too because device drivers that
works only in DMA could work just do I/O over bigmem pages fine, without
need of any driver change even now. So we can _just_ elaborate something
more than the simple PageBIGMEM().

Andrea


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