Re: [PATCH RFC] x86: Fix 64-bit DMA masks on VIA

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From: Andi Kleen

Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] x86: Fix 64-bit DMA masks on VIA

Date: Thursday, April 24, 2008 - 6:43 am

Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> writes:

quoted text> This untested patch is supposed to fix DMAing on some VIA boards.
> Currently the DMA subsystem returns an error, if the driver does
> tell that it supports a 64bit DMA mask. So the driver probing
> would fail in that case. 

The driver is broken then. It is supposed to retry with a small
mask on an error. Please fix the driver.

-Andi
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[PATCH RFC] x86: Fix 64-bit DMA masks on VIA, Michael Buesch, (Wed Apr 23, 11:55 am)

Re: [PATCH RFC] x86: Fix 64-bit DMA masks on VIA, Andi Kleen, (Thu Apr 24, 6:43 am)

Re: [PATCH RFC] x86: Fix 64-bit DMA masks on VIA, Michael Buesch, (Thu Apr 24, 7:06 am)

Re: [PATCH RFC] x86: Fix 64-bit DMA masks on VIA, Andi Kleen, (Thu Apr 24, 7:12 am)

Re: [PATCH RFC] x86: Fix 64-bit DMA masks on VIA, David Miller, (Thu Apr 24, 7:18 am)

Re: [PATCH RFC] x86: Fix 64-bit DMA masks on VIA, Alan Cox, (Thu Apr 24, 7:32 am)

Re: [PATCH RFC] x86: Fix 64-bit DMA masks on VIA, Michael Buesch, (Thu Apr 24, 8:19 am)

Re: [PATCH RFC] x86: Fix 64-bit DMA masks on VIA, Ingo Molnar, (Mon Apr 28, 9:53 am)

Re: [PATCH RFC] x86: Fix 64-bit DMA masks on VIA, Jesse Barnes, (Mon Apr 28, 10:04 am)

Re: [PATCH RFC] x86: Fix 64-bit DMA masks on VIA, Michael Buesch, (Mon Apr 28, 2:48 pm)


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