linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fsldma: use PCI Read Multiple command

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Message-ID: <49F60A3A.4060402@freescale.com>
Date:	Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:40:42 -0500
From:	Timur Tabi <timur@...escale.com>
To:	David Hawkins <dwh@...o.caltech.edu>
CC:	Liu Dave-R63238 <DaveLiu@...escale.com>,
	Ira Snyder <iws@...o.caltech.edu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fsldma: use PCI Read Multiple command

David Hawkins wrote:

> Would you like some sort of summary of this info for a commit
> message?

That's probably overkill.  I just want a sentence or two that tells
someone looking at the code casually that the behavior of reading PCI
memory might be different than what they expect.

> Would you like us to check any other transaction/register combos?

Yes, could you try this on non-PCI memory?

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
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