Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271755AbTHMLY0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2003 07:24:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271813AbTHMLY0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2003 07:24:26 -0400 Received: from crosslink-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.254]:9720 "EHLO dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271755AbTHMLYY (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Aug 2003 07:24:24 -0400 Subject: Re: consistent_dma_mask is a ghost? From: Alan Cox To: Pete Zaitcev Cc: Krzysztof Halasa , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <200308130011.h7D0BME29033@devserv.devel.redhat.com> References: <200308130011.h7D0BME29033@devserv.devel.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1060773827.8008.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.3 (1.4.3-3) Date: 13 Aug 2003 12:23:48 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 752 Lines: 16 On Mer, 2003-08-13 at 01:11, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > Platforms which worked correctly before continue to work > correctly thereafter. IMHO, the whole thing is a kludge, > designed to support AIC7xxx on SGI SN-2, and that's about > all it does. There's a device which uses fewer DMA bits > when it accesses its mailbox than when it accesses data. Same is true for megaraid, aacraid and several other cards, but they just keep changing the pci mask at runtime. Thats in some ways even uglier but works for now - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/