James Bottomley wrote: > On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 15:02 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> James Bottomley wrote: >>> Could we please get this in ... I thought I mentioned several times that >>> it fixes a fatal oops in both aic94xx and ipr. >> Tejun has a persistent objection... see other email. > > Actually, see other email .. I meant that this patch (eliminate dma > padding) is independent of the drain one. Sorry about the delay. There's a problem here. For the blk layer dma padding itself, it's okay but the problem is that it blocks the pending draining patch without supplying usable alternative at the moment. I agree that the long term solution should be in the block layer && I understand that it causes problem for SAS controllers but for the moment if we don't include the existing draining patch, far more ATAPI devices are affected. So, it's catch-22 situation. I think the best solution is to update block layer draining such that it can be included together before the merge window closes. I'll dig into it. Thanks. -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
