Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271720AbTHRMua (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 08:50:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271721AbTHRMua (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 08:50:30 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:20205 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271720AbTHRMu0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 08:50:26 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 05:43:41 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: Krzysztof Halasa Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, zaitcev@redhat.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: kills consistent_dma_mask Message-Id: <20030818054341.2ef07799.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20030817233705.0bea9736.davem@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.2 (GTK+ 1.2.6; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 772 Lines: 23 On 18 Aug 2003 14:44:19 +0200 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > "David S. Miller" writes: > > > ia64 does in fact need consistent_dma_mask. > > For what? Because on some SGI ia64 platforms the need to allow a different range for consistent_dma_mask than they do for the normal dma_mask. The ia64 support code to do things with consistent_dma_mask just isn't in the tree yet. Because the other platforms don't to do anything special wrt. this they can just ignore consitent_dma_mask altogether. - 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/