On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 06:28:00AM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Monday 10 April 2006 06:22, you wrote: > > Either the ppc code is wrong (it doesn't enforce dma_mask) either the > > driver still works without the check. > > > > Maybe ppc should do the same thing as i386: > > > > 47 if (dev == NULL || (dev->coherent_dma_mask < 0xffffffff)) > > 48 gfp |= GFP_DMA; > > No, GFP_DMA is a NOP on PPC. > Actually the problems seems much more complex and a correct fix > seems to be hard to do. > I think benh is actually fixing this. > > To summerize: I actually added these messages, because people were > hitting "this does not work with >1G" issues and did not get an error message. > So I decided to insert warnings until the issue is fixed inside the arch code. > I will remove them once the issue is fixed. >
Thanks for the explainations. Benoit -- powered by bash/screen/(urxvt/fvwm|linux-console)/gentoo/gnu/linux OS - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
