Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757086AbYJIVvn (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2008 17:51:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755856AbYJIVve (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2008 17:51:34 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.231]:16847 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755683AbYJIVvd (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2008 17:51:33 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references:x-google-sender-auth; b=qkwOX3p0FTIF7hAKPnf0fypsLni7Ky7BvRRUuwxQHfujMoS/heTLsG907kqDrRzghG pIu5kS5veVdrWf7CnAwGFOXBfR+3uwt/7oWLuRPClZv4xU9/EJLYyvwzjiDfuq4Xa7Cp 9z7ZFBfmopUhUFkHXnO+aaVhFD8U0K877xyK4= Message-ID: <86802c440810091451y4a3caceg1abaa75464c40a72@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:51:32 -0700 From: "Yinghai Lu" To: "Matthew Wilcox" Subject: Re: [PATCH] pci: print out DMA mask info Cc: "Grant Grundler" , "Jesse Barnes" , "Ingo Molnar" , "Thomas Gleixner" , "H. Peter Anvin" , "Andrew Morton" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20081009213551.GC25780@parisc-linux.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1223506943-6543-1-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> <20081009211837.GC18444@colo.lackof.org> <48EE7745.2020603@kernel.org> <20081009213551.GC25780@parisc-linux.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: d47d26e604cac72c Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 779 Lines: 21 On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > Why's that interesting to the sysadmin of the machine? To the driver > writer, certainly. But what's the use of it to the people using the > machine? > > -- > Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre > "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this > operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such > a retrograde step." make linux kernel act like black box as other os? YH -- 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/