netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2 -next] r8169: use device model DMA API

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Message-ID: <20100923172337.3ad78757@dhcp-lab-109.englab.brq.redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:23:37 +0200
From:	Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
To:	Denis Kirjanov <kirjanov@...il.com>
Cc:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 -next] r8169: use device model DMA API

On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:59:10 +0400
Denis Kirjanov <kirjanov@...il.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com> wrote:
> > Use DMA API as PCI equivalents will be deprecated. This change also
> > allow to allocate with GFP_KERNEL where possible.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
> > ---
> 
> dma_map_single and friend can fail. Thus, we should check for a return value.
> Yes, this is not directly related to current patch, but it would be
> great to fix this.

Sure, I will another patch with fix soon.

Stanislaw
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