Re: bnx2 fails to compile on parisc because of missingget_dma_ops()

[FUJITA Tomonori]

On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:13:49 -0500
James Bottomley <JBottomley@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm not quite sure whose fault this one is.
> 
> However, this code in bnx2.c:
> 
> 		if (!get_dma_ops(&pdev->dev)->sync_single_for_cpu) {
> 			next_rx_buf =
> 				&rxr->rx_buf_ring[
> 					RX_RING_IDX(NEXT_RX_BD(sw_cons))];
> 			prefetch(next_rx_buf->desc);
> 		}
> 
> Looks remarkably fragile: what exactly is it trying to do?
> 
> The commit that causes the problem:
> 
> commit a33fa66bcf365ffe5b79d1ae1d3582cc261ae56e
> Author: Michael Chan <mchan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Thu May 6 08:58:13 2010 +0000
> 
>     bnx2: Add prefetches to rx path.
> 
> Looks fairly innocuous by the description.
> 
> Should parisc have a get_dma_ops()?  We don't need one because our dma
> ops are per platform not per bus.

Shouldn't. Only the architectures that use
include/dma-generic/dma-mapping.common.h need to have get_dma_ops().

Using include/dma-generic/dma-mapping.common.h for parisc is not a bad
idea though.
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