Re: [parisc-linux] Re: parisc scatterlist doesn't want page/offset

[Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 07:17:51AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
>    Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 15:04:54 +0000
> 
>    On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 06:52:43AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
>    > 
>    > No, you must have page+offset because in the future the
>    > "address" field of scatterlist is going to disappear
>    > and _ONLY_ page+offset will be used.
>    
>    but _WHY_ in 2.4?  this is ridiculous for something which is alleged to
>    be a stable kernel.
>    
> You have to add two members to a silly structure which nobody
> uses right now, that is so horrible.  What affect on stability
> does that change have?
> 
> This makes merging of Jen's Axboe's block highmem code back into
> 2.4.x painless.  That is why.

so when jens' code is merged back into 2.4 we won't have to make any
changes to the arch dependent code?

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