Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262652AbTIAHwX (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2003 03:52:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262724AbTIAHwX (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2003 03:52:23 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:40849 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262652AbTIAHwR (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2003 03:52:17 -0400 Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 00:43:08 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: Krzysztof Halasa Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, jes@trained-monkey.org, zaitcev@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: kills consistent_dma_mask Message-Id: <20030901004308.477f8cc8.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: 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> 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: 801 Lines: 20 On 01 Sep 2003 09:34:50 +0200 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > "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. Sure, I'm fine with this as a termporary thing until we work out the details properly. - 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/