Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932937Ab0DHQ7m (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Apr 2010 12:59:42 -0400 Received: from iolanthe.rowland.org ([192.131.102.54]:47194 "HELO iolanthe.rowland.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932728Ab0DHQ7i (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Apr 2010 12:59:38 -0400 Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 12:59:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Alan Stern X-X-Sender: stern@iolanthe.rowland.org To: Oliver Neukum cc: Daniel Mack , , Pedro Ribeiro , , Greg KH , , Subject: Re: USB transfer_buffer allocations on 64bit systems In-Reply-To: <201004080812.04419.oliver@neukum.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1003 Lines: 24 On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 7. April 2010 17:46:17 schrieb Alan Stern: > > Or alternatively, instead of allocating regular memory the routine > > could simply fail. Then the caller would be responsible for checking > > and using regular memory instead of dma-consistent memory. Of course, > > that would put an even larger burden on the caller than just forcing it > > to keep track of what flag to use. > > Then it would be sensible to pass it a filled URB, modify it or return > an error code. That would work, but it doesn't match the way existing drivers use the interface. For example, the audio driver allocates a 16-byte coherent buffer and then uses four bytes from it for each of four different URBs. Alan Stern -- 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/