Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Sep 2002 15:13:00 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] highmem I/O for ide-pmac.c |
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On Wed, Sep 11 2002, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Wed, Sep 11 2002, Jens Axboe wrote: > > Also, can you grow sg segments indefinitely? > > Maybe you copied that from ide-dma? I think it would be safer to just > remove it, btw, there's no (if any) benefit to making the sg segments > bigger than a page since we'll much sooner hit the max sectors > limitation than the segment one.
ide_build_dmatable() makes sure that it is safe, so no extra checking is needed. So we can keep current behaviour and its not a bug and no changes are needed in either ide-dma nor ide-pmac.
-- Jens Axboe
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