From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 12:14:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 12:13:40 -0400 Received: from e1.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.101]:50830 "EHLO e1.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 12:12:00 -0400 Message-ID: <3CBC4D18.1090005@us.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 09:11:04 -0700 From: Dave Hansen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020408 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix ips driver compile problems In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: > Nope.. thats not what Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt says > > It needs updating to use the pci DMA API. That also conveniently should > put you close to having it work cross platform Let me first point out, I have no official connection to the writing of this driver. It's a big company :) I'm most interested in this because I have an old ServeRAID card at home. I know that none of the real authors is actively working on fixing this. Can this be accepted as a band-aid until the maintainers decide to maintain a 2.5 driver, or are we pushing authors to rewrite drivers which don't use the new DMA scheme? -- Dave Hansen haveblue@us.ibm.com