From: Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com>
To: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
zaitcev@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: kills consistent_dma_mask
Date: 25 Aug 2003 04:47:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3znhym8cs.fsf@trained-monkey.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3n0dz5kfg.fsf@defiant.pm.waw.pl>
>>>>> "Krzysztof" == Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> writes:
Krzysztof> There is one big problem with current API: the DMA (struct
Krzysztof> driver) API does not have consistent_dma_mask. If the PCI
Krzysztof> API is implemented on top of DMA API, it can't be correct
Krzysztof> (and, obviously, DMA API on top of PCI API can't be correct
Krzysztof> either). So, if we insist on keeping consistent_dma_mask in
Krzysztof> pci_dev structure, we need to add it to DMA API as
Krzysztof> well. There is no trivial change which can fix this
Krzysztof> problem.
So why are we dancing around the thing like this, the problem is sooo
bloody simple. Add consistent_dma_mask to the DMA API as well. I
already spoke to James briefly about this earlier and he didn't sound
like had anything against us adding this feature there.
Jes
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-25 8:47 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
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 [this message]
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