From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756696AbYJIVgM (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2008 17:36:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757519AbYJIVfy (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2008 17:35:54 -0400 Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:43666 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757470AbYJIVfw (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2008 17:35:52 -0400 Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 15:35:51 -0600 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Yinghai Lu Cc: Grant Grundler , Jesse Barnes , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] pci: print out DMA mask info Message-ID: <20081009213551.GC25780@parisc-linux.org> References: <1223506943-6543-1-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> <20081009211837.GC18444@colo.lackof.org> <48EE7745.2020603@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48EE7745.2020603@kernel.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.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."