linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 7/7] x86: switch the VIA 32-bit DMA quirk to use the struct device flag

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Date:   Mon, 28 May 2018 08:18:46 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        x86@...nel.org, iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] x86: switch the VIA 32-bit DMA quirk to use the
 struct device flag

On Mon, 28 May 2018, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 08:10:40AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > n Fri, 25 May 2018, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > 
> > x86/pci-dma: ...
> > 
> > Please
> > 
> > > Instead of globally disabling > 32bit DMA using the arch_dma_supported
> > > hook walk the PCI bus under the actually affected bridge and mark every
> > > device with the dma_32bit_limit flag.  This also gets rid of the
> > > arch_dma_supported hook entirely.
> > 
> > Shouldn't this go before the other two? 
> 
> Which other two?  The boot optional removal patches?  They just remove
> the visible interface, but keep the implementation which is converted
> to the better mechanism here, so I think the order makes sense.
> But I might be missing something..

They remove the commandline switch before having the replacement in place
unless I'm misreading something.

Thanks,

	tglx