Re: [PATCH 2.6.17-rc5-mm2 17/18] sbp2: provide helptext for CONFIG_IEEE1394_SBP2_PHYS_DMAand mark it experimental

[Stefan Richter]

Ben Collins wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 22:27 +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> > It appears I will not get it fixed overnight.
>
> > -	bool "Enable Phys DMA support for SBP2 (Debug)"
> > -	depends on IEEE1394 && IEEE1394_SBP2
> > +	bool "Enable replacement for physical DMA in SBP2"
> > +	depends on IEEE1394 && IEEE1394_SBP2 && EXPERIMENTAL
>
>
> Please add '&& !SPARC' to the depends line. Other architectures may
> apply, but I know for sure that this cannot be enabled on SPARC or
> SPARC64 since the module will be unloadable due to missing symbols
> (virt_to_bus, bus_to_virt).

Are there suggestions for more architectures? PPC64?

Or maybe I should put something into sbp2 like
#if defined(CONFIG_X86_32) || defined(CONFIG_PPC32)
	a = bus_to_virt(b);
#else
	printk("this functionality will be brought to you RSN");
#endif
until I had time to implement a proper mapping.
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Stefan Richter
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