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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: kills consistent_dma_mask
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On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 13:52:55 +0100
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> On Sul, 2003-08-31 at 02:50, David S. Miller wrote:
> > On 30 Aug 2003 23:18:50 +0200
> > Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> wrote:
> > 
> > > David, any comments?
> > 
> > I'm too busy to partake in this thread right now, sorry.
> 
> Then I suggest we remove the feature until 2.7 since nobody has time
> to make it work in 2.6

The problem is that it works for the people it was created
for, you're going to break things for them.