On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Hiroshi DOYU <Hiroshi.DOYU@nokia.com> wrote:
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> From: "ext felipe.contreras@gmail.com" <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 4/4] iommu: create new api to set valid da range
> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:35:50 +0200
>
>> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:48 AM, Fernando Guzman Lugo <x0095840@ti.com> wrote:
>>> Some IOMMUs cannot use the whole 0x0 - 0xFFFFFFFF range.
>>> With this new API the valid range can be set.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Fernando Guzman Lugo <x0095840@ti.com>
>>
>> I don't see the point in having an API. It could be done through
>> platform data, and the usage of 0xFFFFF000 instead of ULONG_MAX is
>> independent of this.
>
> Using platform data is better, but why dropping da_end?

Because it's always 0xFFFFF000. Do you know of any instance where it's not?

-- 
Felipe Contreras
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