Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix initialization and usage of dma_mask

From: Olaf Hering
Date: Mon Aug 06 2007 - 18:30:32 EST


On Tue, Aug 07, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> powerpc has a couple of bugs in the usage of dma_masks that tend to
> break when drivers explicitely try to set a 32 bits mask for example.
>
> First the code that generates the pci devices from the OF device-tree
> doesn't initialize the mask properly, then our implementation of
> set_dma_mask() was trying to validate the -previous- mask value, not the
> one passed in as an argument.
>
> This patch should fix these.
>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Does this fix the problem you've noticed ?

This patch fixes it. Thanks.
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