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Message-Id: <1232405064.23611.69.camel@pasglop>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:44:24 +1100
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@...e.de>, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] ide: small ide_register_port() cleanup
> Since it is the second time this ->parent special case bited us in the *ss:
>
> pmac_ide_macio_attach():
> ...
> hw.dev = &mdev->bus->pdev->dev;
> hw.parent = &mdev->ofdev.dev;
> ...
>
> I again wonder what is the reason for having different struct device-s used
> for DBDMA and for device tree on MACIO PMAC controllers. Maybe there is no
> real reason after all and we can use &mdev->ofdev.dev also for hwif->dev?
Historically, dma_map_* wasn't supported on the macio devs, had to use
the underlying pci dev.
In fact, it might even still be the case. I need to have a look at it
after LCA, though with our current DMA ops, it should be easy to fix.
Cheers,
Ben.
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