Re: Proposal for a new PCI function call

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Thu Apr 12 2001 - 14:40:32 EST


Steve Modica wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> We found recently that the acenic driver for the 3com gigabit ethernet card does
> not enable 64 bit DMAs. (this is done by setting the appropriate mask in
> pci_dev->dma_mask).
>
> Jes suggested that the appropriate way to fix this would be to create a function
> like pci_enable_dma64 and then have the driver call that, rather than directly
> setting this value (a small handful of drivers do this now).
>
> I think the function idea would let us do some sanity checking to make sure
> drivers weren't setting this to 64bit on non-64 bit busses and stuff.

pci_set_dma_mask. Modify that to do the additional checks you need.

Nobody should be setting dma_mask directly anymore, it should be done
through this function.

        Jeff

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