From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>,
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pci: print out DMA mask info
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 15:35:51 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081009213551.GC25780@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48EE7745.2020603@kernel.org>
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 02:27:33PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> >> aacraid 0000:86:00.0: using 32bit DMA mask
> >> aacraid 0000:86:00.0: using 32bit consistent DMA mask
> >> aacraid 0000:86:00.0: using 64bit DMA mask
> >> aacraid 0000:86:00.0: using 64bit consistent DMA mask
>
> and aacraid do 32bit at first then 64bit...
>
> so put that in boot message could be useful too.
Why's that interesting to the sysadmin of the machine? To the driver
writer, certainly. But what's the use of it to the people using the
machine?
--
Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-09 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-08 23:02 [PATCH] pci: print out DMA mask info Yinghai Lu
2008-10-09 21:18 ` Grant Grundler
2008-10-09 21:27 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-09 21:35 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2008-10-09 21:51 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-09 22:55 ` Grant Grundler
2008-10-09 23:05 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-10 2:40 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-10-10 4:56 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-10 6:08 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-10-10 6:32 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-10 7:32 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-10-12 7:16 ` Grant Grundler
2008-10-10 22:45 ` Grant Grundler
2008-10-14 6:50 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-10-12 7:11 ` Grant Grundler
2008-10-23 1:45 ` [PATCH] pci: show dma_mask bits in /sys Yinghai Lu
2008-10-23 3:28 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-10-23 4:19 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-23 6:44 ` Grant Grundler
2008-10-23 8:38 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2008-10-23 15:39 ` Greg KH
2008-10-23 18:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-23 19:36 ` Grant Grundler
2008-10-23 19:49 ` Greg KH
2008-10-24 10:50 ` Andi Kleen
2008-11-01 17:10 ` Grant Grundler
2008-10-23 6:48 ` Grant Grundler
2008-10-23 6:51 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-23 19:28 ` Grant Grundler
2008-10-10 2:40 ` [PATCH] pci: print out DMA mask info FUJITA Tomonori
2008-10-10 2:59 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-10-10 2:40 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-10-10 15:48 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-10-10 16:19 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-10 16:28 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-10-10 16:33 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-10-10 16:46 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-10-10 17:12 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-10-10 17:18 ` Roland Dreier
2008-10-12 7:38 ` Grant Grundler
2008-10-12 7:20 ` Grant Grundler
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