Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263198AbTIARhV (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2003 13:37:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263203AbTIARhV (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2003 13:37:21 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:46997 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263198AbTIARhU (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2003 13:37:20 -0400 Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 10:28:08 -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: <20030901102808.1d27f537.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> <20030901004308.477f8cc8.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: 774 Lines: 18 On 01 Sep 2003 19:14:46 +0200 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > When pci_set_dma_mask() is successful, and returns zero, the PCI layer > -saves away this mask you have provided. The PCI layer will use this > -information later when you make DMA mappings. > +saves away this mask you have provided. The PCI layer may or may not > +use this information later when you make DMA mappings. Umm, come on, this is inaccurate. If it is accurate fix the broken platforms. But this is unrelated to the consistent DMA issues. - 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/