Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 04:03:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 04:03:26 -0500 Received: from linuxcare.com.au ([203.29.91.49]:58119 "EHLO front.linuxcare.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 17 Feb 2001 04:03:19 -0500 From: Anton Blanchard Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 20:01:21 +1100 To: Rick Richardson Cc: Anton Blanchard , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Whats the rvmalloc() story? Message-ID: <20010217200121.A3000@linuxcare.com> In-Reply-To: <20010210220808.A18488@mn.rr.com> <20010217184633.A2484@linuxcare.com> <20010217024948.A1726@mn.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <20010217024948.A1726@mn.rr.com>; from rickr@mn.rr.com on Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 02:49:48AM -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > If you are offering to do this work now, here is a thread worth > reading which includes a patch to start from... > > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0002.1/0586.html > > BTW, Alan Cox sent me the following additional information in a > private email. Might as well get this in the mailing list archives > for posterity so that the terms "rvmalloc" and "kiovecs" actually > appear in the same post. This way, at least, we all know what the > plan for 2.6 should be. Thanks for the info. Since we arent going to put kiovecs in here for 2.4, I'll just add the 2.4 pci DMA fixes so my bttv card will work in my sparc and someone can look at cleaning it up properly in 2.5. Anton - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/