linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] pci: show dma

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Message-ID: <20081023032833.GK26094@parisc-linux.org>
Date:	Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:28:33 -0600
From:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
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: show dma_mask bits in /sys

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 06:45:10PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> Grant prefer to add it /sys instead of showing in bootlog
> 
> so could catch if the driver set the correct dma_mask.

I still don't think this is useful information to be exposing.

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operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
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