From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263498AbTIAS1P (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2003 14:27:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263507AbTIAS1O (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2003 14:27:14 -0400 Received: from hq.pm.waw.pl ([195.116.170.10]:10398 "EHLO hq.pm.waw.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263498AbTIAS0l convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2003 14:26:41 -0400 To: "David S. Miller" Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, jes@trained-monkey.org, zaitcev@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: kills consistent_dma_mask References: <20030818111522.A12835@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <1061298438.30566.29.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030819095547.2bf549e3.davem@redhat.com> <20030824060057.7b4c0190.davem@redhat.com> <20030830185007.5c61af71.davem@redhat.com> <1062334374.31861.32.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030831222233.1bd41f01.davem@redhat.com> <20030901004308.477f8cc8.davem@redhat.com> <20030901102808.1d27f537.davem@redhat.com> From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: 01 Sep 2003 20:24:51 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20030901102808.1d27f537.davem@redhat.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "David S. Miller" writes: > Umm, come on, this is inaccurate. I tried to make it accurate. I might be missing something, though. What exactly do you think is inaccurate? > But this is unrelated to > the consistent DMA issues. Hmm... What do you mean? BTW: consistent_dma_mask and dma_mask names are misleading: they are (in theory) related to allocation vs mapping requests mainly - the consistent vs non-consistent thing is secondary. -- Krzysztof Halasa, B*FH