linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 09/33] x86-64: update iommu/dma mapping functions to sg helpers

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Date:	Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:10:03 +0200
From:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	ak@...e.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/33] x86-64: update iommu/dma mapping functions to sg
	helpers

On Mon, Jul 16 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:47:23 +0200
> Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com> wrote:
> 
> > This prepares x86-64 for sg chaining support.
> > 
> > Additional improvements/fixups for pci-gart from
> > Benny Halevy <bhalevy@...asas.com>
> > 
> > Cc: ak@...e.de
> > Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-calgary.c |   25 ++++++++------
> >  arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-gart.c    |   63 ++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
> >  arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-nommu.c   |    5 ++-
> >  3 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)
> 
> This causes fairly extensive destruction of 2.6.23 changes which are
> pending in Andi's tree.
> 
> I shall drop the block tree until a) Andi has merged the pending Calgary
> changes and b) the block tree has been fixed up to account for those (and
> other) changes.
> 
> Really, this was the perfectly worst time possible to go tromping all over
> everyone else's trees.

Well, that's a bit hard for me to know, all I can do is push my stuff to
for-akpm so that it gets -mm exposure. If I don't, then you are yelling
at me as well :-)

I'll keep rebasing sglist and the other branches I pull into for-akpm,
so you can just re-enable the for-akpm pull when the a) is true.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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