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Subject: Re: NAPI for eepro100
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   From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
   Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 19:00:00 -0400
   
   for the 'mips' patch, it looks 
   like the arch maintainer(s) need to fix the PCI DMA support...

No, it's worse than that.

See how non-consistent memory is used by the eepro100 driver
for descriptor bits?  The skb->tail bits?

That is very problematic.