From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
To: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 0/3] remove useless ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:34:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1275417283.21962.646.camel@mulgrave.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100601182452.GA3564@kernel.dk>
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 20:24 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Mon, May 31 2010, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> > This patchset removes useless ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD:
> >
> > - ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD is irrelevant to the majority of architectures but
> > they have to define it.
> >
> > - ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD definition is inconsistent on architectures; ISA
> > DMA addressing restriction, DMA addressing restriction or something
> > else.
> >
> > - Everyone (except for SCSI) uses dma_mask instead of ancient
> > ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD.
> >
> > Only SCSI uses ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD for ancient drivers with non-zero
> > unchecked_isa_dma. We can safely remove ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD usage in
> > SCSI. So we can clean up ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD on the whole tree.
>
> Looks good. James, it's probably easier if I just carry this patch set.
Sure, acked by me.
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-01 18:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-31 6:59 [PATCH -mm 0/3] remove useless ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD FUJITA Tomonori
2010-05-31 6:59 ` [PATCH -mm 1/3] aha1532: remove ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD usage FUJITA Tomonori
2010-05-31 6:59 ` [PATCH -mm 2/3] block: kill " FUJITA Tomonori
2010-05-31 6:59 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-05-31 6:59 ` [PATCH -mm 3/3] remove needless ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD FUJITA Tomonori
2010-05-31 6:59 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-06-01 18:51 ` David Howells
2010-06-01 18:24 ` [PATCH -mm 0/3] remove useless ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD Jens Axboe
2010-06-01 18:34 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2010-06-02 2:30 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-06-02 6:18 ` Jens Axboe
2010-06-17 12:48 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-06-17 12:59 ` Jens Axboe
2010-06-17 12:59 ` Jens Axboe
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