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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
To: Jeremy Higdon <jeremy@sgi.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Proposal for new generic device API: dma_get_required_mask()
Date: 18 Jun 2004 09:19:00 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1087568345.2135.10.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040618055909.GA13007@sgi.com>

On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 00:59, Jeremy Higdon wrote:
> Sounds good.  But I'm curious why you make the driver call dma_set_mask()
> twice.

Basically so that dma_get_required_mask() returns a value that may be
related to the current mask.  If the device has a wierd mask setting
(say it has bits missing or something), the platform may want to return
something different to tune the required mask to be optimal.

James



  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-18 14:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-17 14:08 Proposal for new generic device API: dma_get_required_mask() James Bottomley
2004-06-17 14:51 ` Meelis Roos
2004-06-17 15:28 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-06-17 20:12   ` James Bottomley
2004-06-18  0:46 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-06-18  1:45   ` James Bottomley
2004-06-18 23:07     ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-06-19 15:00       ` James Bottomley
2004-06-19 23:39         ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-06-20 16:56           ` James Bottomley
2004-06-18  9:21   ` Russell King
2004-06-18 23:10     ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-06-19 20:22       ` Russell King
2004-06-20  0:00         ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-06-20 19:47           ` Russell King
2004-06-23 19:32             ` Krzysztof Halasa
2004-06-18  5:59 ` Jeremy Higdon
2004-06-18 14:19   ` James Bottomley [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-17 14:52 Salyzyn, Mark

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