linux-kernel - Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git

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Message-ID: <4716D6B1.8010309@rtr.ca>
Date:	Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:44:49 -0400
From:	Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp,
	jens.axboe@...cle.com, mingo@...e.hu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	jgarzik@...ox.com, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, tomof@....org
Subject: Re: [bug] ata subsystem related crash with latest -git

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, David Miller wrote:
>> I believe that we have enough of a limited set of accessors to
>> sg->page that we can more aggressively encode things in the lower
>> bits.
>>
>> I'm thinking of encoding the low two bits of sg->page as
>> follows:
...
> Yes, that sounds sane.


It would be good to have something soon-ish.
This "dead at boot time" issue is impacting the general ability to test
patches against latest -git in time for the current merge window.

:)
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