Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 00:52:59 -0700
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: khc@pm.waw.pl, jes@trained-monkey.org, zaitcev@redhat.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: kills consistent_dma_mask
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On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 08:54:18 +0100
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> Unfortunately those people don't have time to finish the feature for 2.6
> so its just going to cause bugs and accidents.

It does work for the case it was created for, it you want
to put a note into the documentation mentioning the current
limitations then fine.

But knowing breaking the tree for people is bad practice.
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