Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait

Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu)
Wed, 7 Feb 2001 02:11:46 +0100 (CET)


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

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