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SubjectRe: [GIT PATCH] final SCSI updates for 2.6.24 merge window
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On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 18:46 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:56:46 -0600 James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> wrote:
>
> > Quite a bit of this is fixing things broken previously (the advansys fix
> > is still pending resolution, but I'll send it as an -rc fix when we have
> > it). There's the final elimination of all drivers that are esp based
> > but don't use the scsi_esp core (that's mostly m68k and alpha). Plus
> > the usual bunch of driver updates and the addition of a new enclosure
> > services driver and the corresponding ULD.
>
> Sob. Can we please merge "Convert SG from nopage to fault"? It has been
> sent three times, the first time was Dec 5 last year and it has thus far
> received the lead balloon treatment. Despite my explicit request for
> consideration last time I sent it
>
> If there is no movement here then I have to carry the moderately intrusive
> mm-remove-nopage.patch for another N months and we need to watch out for
> new ->nopage implementations popping up etc.

I agree ... I've pinged Doug privately, this is publicly.
Unfortunately, it is an intrusive change and needs testing .. I just
don't have the tools that do this for SG.

James




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