Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S275001AbTHRQ5J (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 12:57:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S275050AbTHRQ5B (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 12:57:01 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:29313 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S274813AbTHRQ4o (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Aug 2003 12:56:44 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 09:49:55 -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: <20030818094955.3aa5c1c2.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20030817233705.0bea9736.davem@redhat.com> <20030818054341.2ef07799.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: 668 Lines: 17 On 18 Aug 2003 17:54:42 +0200 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > "David S. Miller" writes: > > > Because the other platforms don't to do anything special wrt. this > > they can just ignore consitent_dma_mask altogether. > > No. The documentation states that consistent_dma_mask (and not dma_mask) > will be used when doing pci_alloc_consistent(). Then the platforms need to implement the code. - 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/