Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262719AbTIAHfb (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2003 03:35:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262724AbTIAHfb (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2003 03:35:31 -0400 Received: from hq.pm.waw.pl ([195.116.170.10]:5011 "EHLO hq.pm.waw.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262719AbTIAHf2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2003 03:35:28 -0400 To: "David S. Miller" Cc: Alan Cox , jes@trained-monkey.org, zaitcev@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: kills consistent_dma_mask References: <20030818111522.A12835@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <1061298438.30566.29.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030819095547.2bf549e3.davem@redhat.com> <20030824060057.7b4c0190.davem@redhat.com> <20030830185007.5c61af71.davem@redhat.com> <1062334374.31861.32.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030831222233.1bd41f01.davem@redhat.com> From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: 01 Sep 2003 09:34:50 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20030831222233.1bd41f01.davem@redhat.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 651 Lines: 11 "David S. Miller" writes: > The problem is that it works for the people it was created > for, you're going to break things for them. Then Documentation/DMA* should be corrected to indicate this is created for PCI-64 cards only, and only to increase default 32-bit addressing to 64-bit on x86-64 and ia64. Such correction would be a help to driver developers. -- Krzysztof Halasa, B*FH - 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/