Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 20:12:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 20:12:42 -0500 Received: from chiara.elte.hu ([157.181.150.200]:10763 "HELO chiara.elte.hu") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 20:12:24 -0500 Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 02:11:46 +0100 (CET) From: Ingo Molnar Reply-To: To: Jens Axboe Cc: "Jeff V. Merkey" , Linus Torvalds , "Stephen C. Tweedie" , Ben LaHaise , Alan Cox , Manfred Spraul , Steve Lord , Linux Kernel List , Subject: Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait In-Reply-To: <20010207020957.B14105@suse.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > Adaptec drivers had an oops. Also, AIC7XXX also had some oops with it. > > > > most likely some coding error on your side. buffer-size mismatches should > > show up as filesystem corruption or random DMA scribble, not in-driver > > oopses. > > I would suspect so, aic7xxx shouldn't care about anything except the > sg entries and I would seriously doubt that it makes any such > assumptions on them :-) yep - and not a single reference to b_size in aic7xxx.c. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/