From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, zaitcev@redhat.com,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: kills consistent_dma_mask
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 23:37:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030817233705.0bea9736.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3oeynykuu.fsf@defiant.pm.waw.pl>
On 18 Aug 2003 00:34:17 +0200
Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> wrote:
> The consistent_dma_mask (and set_... function) is presumably a hack
> which is currently not used by anything (at least in the official tree).
> It's unneeded (it can be easily done in a driver, should a need arrive,
> without polluting the PCI subsystem) and is not supported by "DMA" API.
ia64 does in fact need consistent_dma_mask.
> It isn't even implemented on most platforms - only x86_64 and ia64 have
> support for it, while on the remaining archs using it according to the
> docs (with non-default value) could mean Oops or something like that.
The platforms where it isn't implemented simply support
it identically to how they support the normal dma_mask.
Please read the threads in the archives that caused
consistent_dma_mask to be added to the tree in the first
place before you go around removing it.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-18 6:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-17 22:34 [PATCH] RFC: kills consistent_dma_mask Krzysztof Halasa
2003-08-18 6:37 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2003-08-18 12:44 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-08-18 12:43 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-18 15:54 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-08-18 16:49 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-18 18:21 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-08-18 18:50 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-18 21:58 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-08-19 9:24 ` Jes Sorensen
2003-08-19 9:21 ` Jes Sorensen
2003-08-18 13:00 ` Jes Sorensen
2003-08-18 8:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-08-18 15:15 ` Pete Zaitcev
2003-08-18 16:14 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-08-19 9:16 ` Jes Sorensen
2003-08-19 9:49 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-08-19 10:15 ` Jes Sorensen
2003-08-19 9:03 ` Jes Sorensen
2003-08-19 13:07 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-19 13:20 ` Jes Sorensen
2003-08-19 16:55 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-19 18:33 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-19 18:31 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-19 20:31 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-08-22 11:54 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-08-23 17:11 ` Jes Sorensen
2003-08-24 12:06 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-08-24 13:00 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-24 19:58 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-08-25 8:50 ` Jes Sorensen
2003-08-30 21:18 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-08-31 1:50 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-31 12:52 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-31 15:24 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-09-01 5:22 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-01 7:34 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-09-01 7:43 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-01 17:14 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-09-01 17:28 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-01 18:24 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-09-01 7:54 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-01 7:52 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-01 16:27 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-09-01 17:33 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-25 8:47 ` Jes Sorensen
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