From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp
Cc: mchan@broadcom.com, lethal@linux-sh.org, vapier@gentoo.org,
JBottomley@novell.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bnx2 fails to compile on parisc because of missing get_dma_ops()
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 07:36:53 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100617.073653.193708702.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100617211946A.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
From: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:21:13 +0900
> On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 23:24:44 -0700
> "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com> wrote:
>
>> David, why is dma_is_consistent() always returning 1 on sparc? The
>> streaming DMA is not consistent.
>
> I think that there are some confusion about dma_is_consistent(). Some
> architectures think that dma_is_consistent() is supposed to return 1
> if they can allocate coherent memory (note that some architectures
> can't allocate coherent memory).
Right, and that's why it's defined this way.
If the desired meaning is different, just me know and I'll fix the
sparc definition.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-17 14:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-17 1:13 bnx2 fails to compile on parisc because of missing get_dma_ops() James Bottomley
2010-06-17 1:16 ` David Miller
2010-06-17 12:13 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-06-17 1:17 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-06-17 3:53 ` Michael Chan
2010-06-17 4:00 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-06-17 4:03 ` Paul Mundt
2010-06-17 4:10 ` Michael Chan
2010-06-17 6:24 ` Michael Chan
2010-06-17 12:21 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-06-17 14:36 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-06-17 14:50 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-06-17 15:30 ` Paul Mundt
2010-06-22 6:30 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-06-22 17:14 ` Grant Grundler
2010-06-22 17:26 ` James Bottomley
2010-06-23 0:38 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-06-17 4:20 ` James Bottomley
2010-06-17 12:13 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-06-17 12:54 ` Michael Chan
2010-06-17 13:12 ` James Bottomley
2010-06-17 13:30 ` Michael Chan
2010-06-17 13:36 ` James Bottomley
2010-06-17 14:05 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-06-17 14:42 ` Michael Chan
2010-06-17 14:50 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-06-17 15:52 ` David Miller
2010-06-17 12:13 ` FUJITA Tomonori
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