linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add API for weak DMA masks

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Date:	Thu, 1 May 2008 10:27:35 -0700
From:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
To:	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	John Linville <linville@...driver.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, bcm43xx-dev@...ts.berlios.de,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add API for weak DMA masks

On Thursday, May 01, 2008 10:16 am Michael Buesch wrote:
> > So it makes sense to
> > just update the current code to fallback, and update drivers wanting
> > specific mask values to check afterwards.  I hate to inflict that kind of
> > driver wide update on Michael though... :)
>
> Well, that's a lot of work and I'm not sure it's worth it.
> I could live with having dma_set_mask as an API that fails on bad masks
> and dma_request_mask as an API above that which retries. I think that's
> just fine. Drivers can be migrated over time to the new API (or not. That
> can be the driver maintainer's choice).

Oh and for dma_set_mask specifically I don't see that many callers, so 
updating the tree appears doable (meye, aic7xxx, lasai700, qla2xxx, 
sni_53c710, ssb & ehci in my quick look). pci_set_dma_mask otoh is used in 
lots more places (and iirc some platforms implement pci_set_dma_mask in terms 
of dma_set_mask, so small updates would be needed there).

Thanks,
Jesse
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