At 08:46 AM 7/15/2003, Tom Rini wrote: >Well, one thing that is worth noting is that the USB people knew this >was a problem, and it was / should have been fixed in the 2.5 cycle. >Similarly, SCSI was cleaned up a lot, so perhaps this has been fixed >there. I think it's generally known that doing DMA off of the stack is >a bad idea, and should be fixed when found.
I agree this is VERY bad idea but the fact is that there is a code which does such nasty things. I truly hope all this will/was fixed in 2.5 but frankly I wouldn't be so sure :) Unfortunately, for production 2.5 is unusable and will be for some time. A lot of people (I think majority) still use 2.4. And 2.4 (as of 2.4.22-pre6) is still broken in this respect... Eugene ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
