From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>,
Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: kills consistent_dma_mask
Date: 19 Aug 2003 14:07:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1061298438.30566.29.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m33cfyt3x6.fsf@trained-monkey.org>
On Maw, 2003-08-19 at 10:03, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> That would be totally messy. Having drivers do the accounting of what
> mask is currently set and have them switch back and forth depending on
> what type of allocation is currently being used would be a nightmare
> to debug.
It is messy, but the consistent mask only helps a small subset of cases.
Having an __pci_alloc_foo that took the mask as an argument is (a)
trivial (b) adds almost no code (c) solves the general case problem.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-19 16:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-17 22:34 [PATCH] RFC: kills consistent_dma_mask Krzysztof Halasa
2003-08-18 6:37 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-18 12:44 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-08-18 12:43 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-18 15:54 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-08-18 16:49 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-18 18:21 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-08-18 18:50 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-18 21:58 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-08-19 9:24 ` Jes Sorensen
2003-08-19 9:21 ` Jes Sorensen
2003-08-18 13:00 ` Jes Sorensen
2003-08-18 8:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-08-18 15:15 ` Pete Zaitcev
2003-08-18 16:14 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-08-19 9:16 ` Jes Sorensen
2003-08-19 9:49 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-08-19 10:15 ` Jes Sorensen
2003-08-19 9:03 ` Jes Sorensen
2003-08-19 13:07 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-08-19 13:20 ` Jes Sorensen
2003-08-19 16:55 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-19 18:33 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-19 18:31 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-19 20:31 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-08-22 11:54 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-08-23 17:11 ` Jes Sorensen
2003-08-24 12:06 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-08-24 13:00 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-24 19:58 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-08-25 8:50 ` Jes Sorensen
2003-08-30 21:18 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-08-31 1:50 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-31 12:52 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-31 15:24 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-09-01 5:22 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-01 7:34 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-09-01 7:43 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-01 17:14 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-09-01 17:28 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-01 18:24 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-09-01 7:54 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-01 7:52 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-01 16:27 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-09-01 17:33 ` David S. Miller
2003-08-25 8:47 ` Jes Sorensen
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