Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 29 Apr 2003 13:41:00 +0100 | | Subject | Re: [Patch] DMA mapping API for Alpha | | From | Christoph Hellwig <> |
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On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 04:23:22PM +0400, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: > Agreed, but what if your EISA-PCI bridge has only 30 address lines wired > to PCI? Yes, we can check this for EISA device because it has *real* > PCI parent (thanks, Marc :-), but what about ISA/legacy/whatever drivers? > I doubt that all of them bother to set dma_mask pointer (so you can have > an oops there).
If you have a struct device for them you need to set the dma_mask and it should better have some parent (real or fake, at least the data structures must be setup). The old NULL argument will stay for while. If at some point all drivers doing that are converted (or go away :)) it could be dropped.
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