From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jesse Barnes Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 19:45:51 +0000 Subject: [Linux-ia64] Re: PCI DAC routines for SN 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 After an enlightening discussion with Mr. Miller, my patch stands as is. Does it look good enough to integrate into the next release? If not, what should I clean up? Thanks a lot, Jesse On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 04:07:33PM -0700, David Mosberger wrote: > >>>>> On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 15:39:46 -0700, Jesse Barnes said: > > Jesse> Except that pci_alloc_consistent is supposed to return a 32 > Jesse> bit address... > > Oh man, what a mess! Have you checked with Dave Miller? I suspect > he might not like this. I'm not terribly fond of it either as it > makes it even more confusing as to when to use the DAC interface. I'd > rather see a separate "alloc_consistent" routine, which doesn't isn't > on <4GB addresses. > > --david