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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Grant Grundler <iod00d@hp.com>
Cc: ishii.hironobu@jp.fujitsu.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, anton@samba.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH, 1/4] readX_check() performance evaluation
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 22:39:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040128223905.2ecfb683.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040128211405.GG5722@cup.hp.com>

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 13:14:05 -0800
Grant Grundler <iod00d@hp.com> wrote:

> 
> > I believe ppc64 has adopted it too. Of course most drivers don't 
> > use it yet.
> 
> <search 2.6.2-rc2 source tree>
> grundler <502>find -name '*.[chS]' | xargs fgrep pci_dma_error
> ./include/asm-x86_64/pci.h:#define pci_dma_error(x) ((x) ==
> bad_dma_address)
> grundler <503>
> 
> That explains why most drivers don't use it yet.
> It's only supported on one arch.
> Maybe propose this to linux-pci mailing list?

It was discussed on linux-arch and ppc64 at least agreed on it.
The other architectures can get it via a comptibility #define that 
is always 0.

There was a patch for that somewhere, but apparently it was never merged
or not merged yet.

Anton, what was the state of that?

-Andi

      reply	other threads:[~2004-01-28 21:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-28  1:54 [RFC/PATCH, 1/4] readX_check() performance evaluation Hironobu Ishii
2004-01-28 17:20 ` Grant Grundler
2004-01-28 17:41   ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-28 18:31     ` David Mosberger
2004-01-28 18:52       ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-28 19:24         ` David Mosberger
2004-01-28 19:39           ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-28 19:48             ` David Mosberger
2004-01-28 20:01               ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-28 23:35                 ` David Mosberger
2004-02-16 10:19             ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-29  8:23           ` Matthias Fouquet-Lapar
2004-01-29 19:28             ` David Mosberger
2004-01-29 20:16               ` Matthias Fouquet-Lapar
2004-01-29 21:09                 ` David Mosberger
2004-01-29 22:20                   ` Matthias Fouquet-Lapar
2004-01-28 19:09     ` Grant Grundler
2004-01-28 19:17       ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-28 21:14         ` Grant Grundler
2004-01-28 21:39           ` Andi Kleen [this message]

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