Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761840AbYBHDQ6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 22:16:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756587AbYBHDQr (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 22:16:47 -0500 Received: from accolon.hansenpartnership.com ([76.243.235.52]:54761 "EHLO accolon.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756565AbYBHDQq (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 22:16:46 -0500 Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] final SCSI updates for 2.6.24 merge window From: James Bottomley To: Andrew Morton Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-scsi , linux-kernel , Nick Piggin , dougg@torque.net In-Reply-To: <20080207184606.03b28a9c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <1202432206.3171.53.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080207184606.03b28a9c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:16:43 -0600 Message-Id: <1202440603.3171.72.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 (2.12.3-1.fc8) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1472 Lines: 31 On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 18:46 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:56:46 -0600 James Bottomley wrote: > > > Quite a bit of this is fixing things broken previously (the advansys fix > > is still pending resolution, but I'll send it as an -rc fix when we have > > it). There's the final elimination of all drivers that are esp based > > but don't use the scsi_esp core (that's mostly m68k and alpha). Plus > > the usual bunch of driver updates and the addition of a new enclosure > > services driver and the corresponding ULD. > > Sob. Can we please merge "Convert SG from nopage to fault"? It has been > sent three times, the first time was Dec 5 last year and it has thus far > received the lead balloon treatment. Despite my explicit request for > consideration last time I sent it > > If there is no movement here then I have to carry the moderately intrusive > mm-remove-nopage.patch for another N months and we need to watch out for > new ->nopage implementations popping up etc. I agree ... I've pinged Doug privately, this is publicly. Unfortunately, it is an intrusive change and needs testing .. I just don't have the tools that do this for SG. James -- 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/