I don't know.. Adapter should be rewritten using the new 0.11 memory objects, it feels weird to add this new complexity. OTOH it might be better than leaving the current broken behaviour. 

This problem is also in 0.10 but there is doesn't show up because most buffer are not spanning. In 0.11 we always assume the buffer is spanning and use the buffer API to let it merge when possible.

I finally decided to remove the try_merge_up entirely, it should not be called often and if it is called, it would also break with 0.10. Hopefully it encourages someone to rewrite with 0.11 features in mind.


commit 1b87a07d8e513b2e72a675eb5c101f6cdf666146
Author: Wim Taymans <wim.taymans@collabora.co.uk>
Date:   Tue May 1 10:50:32 2012 +0200

    adapter: remove _try_to_merge_up()
    
    It causes the timestamp to go wrong, should not cause much of a performance
    increase and in the cases where it is faster, it is broken in 0.10 as well.
    We should try to review this when rewriting the adapter for 0.11 memory
    features.
    
    Fixes https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674791

Your commit seems to have fixed the problem I was having. Thanks.