Re: [PATCH] RFC: kills consistent_dma_mask

From: Krzysztof Halasa
Date: Mon Sep 01 2003 - 02:36:38 EST


"David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

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

Then Documentation/DMA* should be corrected to indicate this is created
for PCI-64 cards only, and only to increase default 32-bit addressing
to 64-bit on x86-64 and ia64.
Such correction would be a help to driver developers.
--
Krzysztof Halasa, B*FH
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