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From:	Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
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Subject: Re: Correct way to set coherent_dma_mask on a non-pci device?
Date:	Tue, 8 Jul 2008 19:55:47 +0200
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On Tuesday 08 July 2008 19:40:06 Steve Brown wrote:
> There appears to be no function like pci_set_consistent_dma_mask to set 
> the coherent mask for a non-pci device.
> 
> What is the "proper" way to set it?
> 
> The context for the question is a recent change to ssb_dma_set_mask() in 
> drivers/ssb/main.c that removed the somewhat fragile, direct 
> manipulation of dma_mask and coherent_dma_mask in favor of a call to 
> dma_set_mask().

Note that SSB devices use the dma_*** API for doing DMA remappings.
So it uses dma_set_mask() for setting the mask.

-- 
Greetings Michael.