linux-kernel - Re: DMA mapping on SCSI device?

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Date:	Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:37:12 -0700
From:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
To:	Robert Hancock <hancockr@...w.ca>
Cc:	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, ide <linux-ide@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: DMA mapping on SCSI device?

On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 06:08:44PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
> The 
> thought of using the SCSI struct device for DMA mapping was brought up 
> at one point.. any thoughts on that?

I believe this will work on some architectures and not others.
Anything that uses include/asm-generic/dma-mapping.h will break, for
example.  It would be nice for those architectures to get fixed ...

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