Re: [PATCH 6/6] ahci: support the STA2X11 I/O Hub

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 13:33:39 +0100
Alessandro Rubini <rubini@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The AHCI controller found in the STA2X11 chip uses BAR number 0
> instead of 5. Also, the chip's fixup code sets a special DMA mask
> for all of its PCI functions, and the mask must be preserved here.

The more I look at this aspect of it the more convinced I grow that you
should handle this in the DMA ops.

dma_supported will call ops->dma_supported which can in turn make its
own decisions and avoid driver hackery.

Alan
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