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From: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
To: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: "akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"James.Bottomley@suse.de" <James.Bottomley@suse.de>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 0/3] remove useless ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:59:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C1A1C1F.5030302@fusionio.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100617214643N.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>

On 2010-06-17 14:48, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 08:18:15 +0200
> Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Jun 01 2010, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
>>> On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 20:24:52 +0200
>>> Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, May 31 2010, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
>>>>> This patchset removes useless ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD:
>>>>>
>>>>> - ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD is irrelevant to the majority of architectures but
>>>>>   they have to define it.
>>>>>
>>>>> - ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD definition is inconsistent on architectures; ISA
>>>>>   DMA addressing restriction, DMA addressing restriction or something
>>>>>   else.
>>>>>
>>>>> - Everyone (except for SCSI) uses dma_mask instead of ancient
>>>>>   ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD.
>>>>>
>>>>> Only SCSI uses ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD for ancient drivers with non-zero
>>>>> unchecked_isa_dma. We can safely remove ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD usage in
>>>>> SCSI. So we can clean up ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD on the whole tree.
>>>>
>>>> Looks good. James, it's probably easier if I just carry this patch set.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Any tree works for me, I thought about -mm though.
>>>
>>> Can you replace [1/3] with the following?
>>>
>>> I fixed the subject and the body, s/aha1532/aha1542/;
>>>
>>> Somehow I forgot to remove unused BAD_SG_DMA().
>>
>> I'll collect the acks and include this update.
> 
> Can you send this to -next via your tree? I want this to be
> compile-tested on -next on various architectures.

Yep, going out now.


-- 
Jens Axboe


      reply	other threads:[~2010-06-17 12:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-31  6:59 [PATCH -mm 0/3] remove useless ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD FUJITA Tomonori
2010-05-31  6:59 ` [PATCH -mm 1/3] aha1532: remove ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD usage FUJITA Tomonori
2010-05-31  6:59 ` [PATCH -mm 2/3] block: kill " FUJITA Tomonori
2010-05-31  6:59 ` [PATCH -mm 3/3] remove needless ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD FUJITA Tomonori
2010-06-01 18:51   ` David Howells
2010-06-01 18:24 ` [PATCH -mm 0/3] remove useless ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD Jens Axboe
2010-06-01 18:34   ` James Bottomley
2010-06-02  2:30   ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-06-02  6:18     ` Jens Axboe
2010-06-17 12:48       ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-06-17 12:59         ` Jens Axboe [this message]

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