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From: u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de (Uwe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?=)
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 21:32:53 +0200
Subject: [PATCH v2 02/23] at91: Make Ethernet device common
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Hello,

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 07:31:32PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> There was talk a while ago about getting rid of the pointer-ness of
> dma_mask, but I think there's a bit of historic baggage in there to do
> with the pre-device model PCI bus support code which gets in the way.
> Not too sure about that though.
Here is some more info:

	http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.pci/9081

The long story short (IIRC): it's ugly but not worth to be cleaned up.

Best regards
Uwe

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