Re: [PATCH] RFC: kills consistent_dma_mask

David S. Miller
2003-09-01T07:52:23Z

On 01 Sep 2003 09:34:50 +0200
Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> wrote:

> "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > The problem is that it works for the people it was created
> > for, you're going to break things for them.
>
> Then Documentation/DMA* should be corrected to indicate this is created
> for PCI-64 cards only, and only to increase default 32-bit addressing
> to 64-bit on x86-64 and ia64.
> Such correction would be a help to driver developers.

Sure, I'm fine with this as a termporary thing until we
work out the details properly.