On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > 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'm not sure. If I was a driver writer (and I'm happy those days are mostly behind me ;), I would not be totally dis-inclined to check for various limits and things. There can be hardware out there that simply has trouble with non-native alignment, ie be unhappy about getting a 1kB request that is aligned in memory at a 512-byte boundary. So there are real reasons why drivers might need updating. Don't dismiss the concerns out-of-hand. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Linus Torvalds
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Jeff V. Merkey
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Ingo Molnar
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Jeff V. Merkey
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Jens Axboe
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Jeff V. Merkey
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Ingo Molnar
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Jens Axboe
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Ingo Molnar
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Jeff V. Merkey
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Linus Torvalds
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Jens Axboe
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Jeff V. Merkey
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Linus Torvalds
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Jens Axboe
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Linus Torvalds
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Jens Axboe
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... David Howells
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Stephen C. Tweedie
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Stephen C. Tweedie
- Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound e... Linus Torvalds