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Message-Id: <20101209.120006.189701386.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:00:06 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	nicolas.ferre@...el.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] scatterlist: Initialize the dma_address field with
 invalid dma address

From: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>
Date: Thu,  9 Dec 2010 14:15:14 +0100

> Initialize the the dma_address field so that it will be possible to test
> its value while using scatterlists. This field will be compatible with
> testing by dma_mapping_error().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>

Please don't do this, it's unjustified and it's going to kill performance.
Even if it were a good change, you should have used the invalid DMA
address definition defined by various architectures instead of a constant.

You should be aware of whether entries in a scatterlist have been setup
by your code path.
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