From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 08:21:29 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Proper fix for sym53c8xx_2 driver and dma64_addr_t Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 01:44:06PM -0800, David Mosberger wrote: > Christoph> IA64 needs to define dma64_addr_t. > > Not before the driver writers understand when to use it. Architecture maintainers are not supposed to decide whether driver writers understand APIs. The dma64_addr_t type is part of the PCI DMA interface and IA64 needs to defines it. Linus, could you please accept the below patch to define dma64_addr_t on IA64? Christoph -- Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade. Index: include/asm-ia64/types.h =================================RCS file: /vger/linux/include/asm-ia64/types.h,v retrieving revision 1.3 diff -u -u -r1.3 types.h --- include/asm-ia64/types.h 22 Apr 2000 00:45:18 -0000 1.3 +++ include/asm-ia64/types.h 6 Feb 2002 08:24:24 -0000 @@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ /* DMA addresses are 64-bits wide, in general. */ typedef u64 dma_addr_t; +typedef u64 dma64_addr_t; # endif /* __KERNEL__ */ #endif /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */