Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 21:45:48 +0200
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Ed Sweetman <ed.sweetman@wmich.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: why no cdda cdrom dma use in 2.6?
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On Thu, Aug 28 2003, Ed Sweetman wrote:
> It seems like this is a win win patch for the cdrom that was heavily 
> tested in 2.4 in the akpm tree. I'm just wondering why it was never 
> incorporated into 2.5 and thus 2.6? It's a shame to not have it in the 
> kernel by default.

>From my perspective, it would be fine to include in 2.6 right now. The
2.4 patch relied heavily on buffer_heads though, so you would have to
adapt the patch to bio first. Actually, it should be doable in a much
less hackish manner.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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