netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] farsync: Fix confusion about DMA address and buffer offset types

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Date:	Wed, 11 Jun 2014 00:45:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ben@...adent.org.uk
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kevin.curtis@...site.co.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] farsync: Fix confusion about DMA address
 and buffer offset types

From: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 23:49:34 +0100

> Use dma_addr_t for DMA address parameters and u32 for shared memory
> offset parameters.
> 
> Do not assume that dma_addr_t is the same as unsigned long; it will
> not be in PAE configurations.  Truncate DMA addresses to 32 bits when
> printing them.  This is OK because the DMA mask for this device is
> 32-bit (per default).
> 
> Also rename the DMA address parameters from 'skb' to 'dma'.
> 
> Compile-tested only.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>

Applied, thanks.
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