netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/9] mm: add a "struct subpage" type containing a page, offset and length

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Date:	Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:19:42 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] mm: add a "struct subpage" type containing a page,
 offset and length

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 05:10:59PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> This version sizes the fields according to page size, was there
> somewhere which wanted to use an offset > PAGE_SIZE (or size > PAGE_SIZE
> for that matter). That would be pretty odd and/or not really a candidate
> for using this datastructure?

I wasn't ever part of the fight myself and only vaguely remember it.
Try to get linux-kernel and Jens onto the Cc list to at least have the
major stakeholders informed.

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