From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] introduce config option to disable DMA zone on i386
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 12:34:39 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45940E3F.1050506@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa.XVmR+7tQ0v2oWVb7eyfQ8pGFhp8@ifi.uio.no>
Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Hi,
>
> since one gets random corruption if a user gets this wrong, at least
> make things like floppy and all CONFIG_ISA stuff conflict with this
> option.... without that your patch feels like a walking time bomb...
> (and please include all PCI drivers that only can do 24 bit or 28bit
> or .. non-32bit dma as well)
That sounds like a bug if this can happen. Drivers should be failing to
initialize if they can't set the proper DMA mask, and the DMA API calls
should be failing if the requested DMA mask can't be provided.
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next parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-28 18:33 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <fa.XVmR+7tQ0v2oWVb7eyfQ8pGFhp8@ifi.uio.no>
2006-12-28 18:34 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2006-12-28 18:37 ` [PATCH] introduce config option to disable DMA zone on i386 Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-28 20:14 ` Robert Hancock
2006-12-28 17:03 Marcelo Tosatti
2006-12-28 17:30 ` Paul Mundt
2006-12-28 17:43 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-28 18:36 ` Jan Engelhardt
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