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From: David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 21:44:06 +0000
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Proper fix for sym53c8xx_2 driver and dma64_addr_t
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>>>>> On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 22:38:04 +0100, Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de> said:

  Christoph> On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 12:43:17PM -0800, Michael Madore
  Christoph> wrote:
  >> Hi,
  >> 
  >> Back in early december, it was brought up that eh sym53c8xx_2
  >> driver makes use of dma64_addr_t, which is not defined on IA64.
  >> I got the impression that it was the driver that needed to be
  >> modified to correct the problem, but I don't recall seeing a
  >> specific solution.  I was going to simply replace dma64_addr_t
  >> with u64 in sym_glue.c for now.  Is there a better way?

  Christoph> IA64 needs to define dma64_addr_t.

Not before the driver writers understand when to use it.

	--david