Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH]: Fix old SCSI adapter crashes with CD-ROM (take 2) | From | James Bottomley <> | Date | Tue, 08 May 2007 12:58:35 -0500 |
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On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 18:53 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > The ultimate goal is to be able to eliminate the unchecked_isa_dma flag > > entirely and have the block layer (or device mask allocations) fix all > > of this in every ULD. > > About time ;)
Actually, I should point out (before those who did the work get justifiably irritated) that the overall goal is to remove the special case non-scatter/gather path from all the drivers ... eliminating the need to worry about DMA zone allocations is just a nice bonus as a side effect of sending everything through the block layer.
James
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