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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: arjanv@redhat.com, jes@wildopensource.com,
	torvalds@transmeta.com, James.Bottomley@steeleye.com,
	grundler@dsl2.external.hp.com, cngam@sgi.com, jeremy@sgi.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@linuxia64.org,
	wildos@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [patch] support 64 bit pci_alloc_consistent
Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 09:43:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030518094341.A1709@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030518.023533.98888328.davem@redhat.com>; from davem@redhat.com on Sun, May 18, 2003 at 02:35:33AM -0700

On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 02:35:33AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:

> WHile logically you are correct, the probing code is going to
> look basically identical.

For most drivers I don't think it will. Most drivers will just say "look I
can do THIS much. I don't give a flying fish about how much of
that you actually use". At least in the probing code. 

In code of say a scsi driver that has to pick some dma descriptor format it's a different
matter of course, but there you have to check SOMETHING, either a variable
you stored during probing, or now the effective mask....

  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-18  9:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-18  4:09 [patch] support 64 bit pci_alloc_consistent Jes Sorensen
2003-05-18  5:46 ` David S. Miller
2003-05-18  6:00 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-05-18  9:29 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-05-18  9:35   ` David S. Miller
2003-05-18  9:43     ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2003-05-18 17:22       ` [Linux-ia64] " Grant Grundler
2003-05-18 17:49         ` James Bottomley
2003-05-18 20:17           ` Grant Grundler
2003-05-18 21:26             ` James Bottomley
2003-05-19 16:26               ` Grant Grundler
2003-05-18 14:17   ` James Bottomley
2003-05-18 14:21     ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-05-18 14:28       ` James Bottomley
     [not found] <mailman.1053231184.22467.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2003-05-18  7:05 ` Pete Zaitcev

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