Re: bnx2 fails to compile on parisc because of missing get_dma_ops()

Michael Chan
2010-06-17T06:24:59Z

Michael Chan wrote:
>
> Paul Mundt wrote:
>
> > If you want to have a micro-optimization for the consistent DMA
> > case, you can check dma_is_consistent(), which is part of the API and
> > will be variable on certain platform configurations (ie, some may be
> > consistent with PCI but not on other busses, etc.)
> >
> >
>
> Thanks for the tip. I didn't know about the dma_is_consistent() API.
> I'll use this to fix it then.
>

David, why is dma_is_consistent() always returning 1 on sparc? The
streaming DMA is not consistent.