Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:10:46 +0200 (CEST) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.3.14: bug-fix for raw IO error recovery |
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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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