Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 09:43:41 +0000
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: arjanv@redhat.com, jes@wildopensource.com, torvalds@transmeta.com,
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       cngam@sgi.com, jeremy@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-ia64@linuxia64.org, wildos@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [patch] support 64 bit pci_alloc_consistent
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On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 02:35:33AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:

> WHile logically you are correct, the probing code is going to
> look basically identical.

For most drivers I don't think it will. Most drivers will just say "look I
can do THIS much. I don't give a flying fish about how much of
that you actually use". At least in the probing code. 

In code of say a scsi driver that has to pick some dma descriptor format it's a different
matter of course, but there you have to check SOMETHING, either a variable
you stored during probing, or now the effective mask....
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