From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: "linux-kernel" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
vojtech@suse.cz, muli@il.ibm.com, jdmason@kudzu.us,
tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] x86: Fix 64-bit DMA masks on VIA
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:43:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mynjgyg9.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200804232055.13102.mb@bu3sch.de> (Michael Buesch's message of "Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:55:12 +0200")
Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> writes:
> This untested patch is supposed to fix DMAing on some VIA boards.
> Currently the DMA subsystem returns an error, if the driver does
> tell that it supports a 64bit DMA mask. So the driver probing
> would fail in that case.
The driver is broken then. It is supposed to retry with a small
mask on an error. Please fix the driver.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-24 13:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-23 18:55 [PATCH RFC] x86: Fix 64-bit DMA masks on VIA Michael Buesch
2008-04-24 13:43 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-04-24 14:06 ` Michael Buesch
2008-04-24 14:12 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-24 14:18 ` David Miller
2008-04-24 14:32 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-24 15:19 ` Michael Buesch
2008-04-28 16:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-28 17:04 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-04-28 21:48 ` Michael Buesch
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