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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Benoit Boissinot <benoit.boissinot@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] remove unneeded check in bcm43xx
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:47:30 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1144720050.19353.26.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060410221359.GC27596@ens-lyon.fr>


> The hacks i see there is reallocating a buffer with GFP_DMA, so that
> means that if the ppc dma_alloc_coherent did the same thing as the i386
> counterpart (adding GFP_DMA if dma_mask is less than 32bits) it should
> work, no ?

Except that GFP_DMA covers the whole address space on ppc64...

Ben.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-04-11  1:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-10  4:01 [RFC/PATCH] remove unneeded check in bcm43xx Benoit Boissinot
     [not found] ` <20060410040120.GA4860-vYW+cPY1g1pWj0EZb7rXcA@public.gmane.org>
2006-04-10  4:07   ` Michael Buesch
2006-04-10  4:22     ` Benoit Boissinot
     [not found]       ` <20060410042228.GN27596-vYW+cPY1g1pWj0EZb7rXcA@public.gmane.org>
2006-04-10  4:28         ` Michael Buesch
2006-04-10  4:38           ` Benoit Boissinot
2006-04-10 13:46           ` John W. Linville
2006-04-10 16:18             ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-04-10 22:13             ` Benoit Boissinot
2006-04-10 22:28               ` David S. Miller
2006-04-11  1:47               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2006-04-11  1:46       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
     [not found]         ` <1144719972.19353.24.camel-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2006-04-11  1:53           ` Michael Buesch
2006-04-11  2:23             ` Benoit Boissinot
2006-04-11  5:49         ` David S. Miller
     [not found]           ` <20060410.224933.39567033.davem-fT/PcQaiUtIeIZ0/mPfg9Q@public.gmane.org>
2006-04-11 16:05             ` Michael Buesch
2006-04-11 20:49           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-04-11 21:34             ` David S. Miller
2006-04-11 22:20               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-04-11 22:21               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-04-11 22:30                 ` Benoit Boissinot
2006-04-11 22:35                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-04-11 22:35                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
     [not found]                 ` <1144794077.19353.53.camel-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>
2006-04-11 23:04                   ` Michael Buesch

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