Re: Scatterlist change in 2.5.15

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* Dan Parks (Dan.Parks@CAMotion.com) wrote:
> Does anyone know why scatterlist::address was removed from asm/scatterlist.h 
> starting with 2.5.15?

address was confusing.  it's now unified to be page+offset.

> When I'm compiling my 2.5.25 kernel, half of the SCSI 
> adaptors won't compile because of this change.  Is it safe to use a 2.5.14 
> scatterlist header file that still has the address field?

No.  update driver instead.

thanks,
-chris
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