Re: [BK PATCH] USB update for 2.6.3

Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-02-20T07:11:47Z

> As for the bigger "generic" dma mapping discussions for devices, hasn't
> this been hashed out a bunch already? For some reason I thought
> everyone was happy for now with the way things work, and for 2.7 it was
> going to be expanded a bit to help support non-pci based busses (much
> like the ARM people just did.)
>
> Hm, I wonder if I can convince anyone that I have to have a PPC64 box
> now to make sure I don't break the build anytime in the future :)

Hehe :) Well... you know who you for for ;)

Regarding the DMA mapping thing, I was (incorrectly) suspecting
you were passing the struct device of individual USB devices
(I haven't actually read the patch, argh ....)

Chasing a miscompile of the kernel with recent GCCs is melting
my brain down, sorry.

Ben.