linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] pci: print out DMA mask info

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Message-ID: <86802c440810091451y4a3caceg1abaa75464c40a72@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:51:32 -0700
From:	"Yinghai Lu" <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	"Matthew Wilcox" <matthew@....cx>
Cc:	"Grant Grundler" <grundler@...isc-linux.org>,
	"Jesse Barnes" <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pci: print out DMA mask info

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx> wrote:

>
> Why's that interesting to the sysadmin of the machine?  To the driver
> writer, certainly.  But what's the use of it to the people using the
> machine?
>
> --
> Matthew Wilcox                          Intel Open Source Technology Centre
> "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
> operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
> a retrograde step."

make linux kernel act like black box as other os?

YH
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