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SubjectRe: 2.6.26-rc1 regression: ISA DMA broken (bisected)
On 13-05-08 19:01, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Tue, 13 May 2008 10:59:32 -0600
> Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> wrote:
>
>> On Friday 09 May 2008 12:06:55 am Takashi Iwai wrote:
>>> Thanks for catching it. Yeah, the patch looks buggy. We had an
>>> implicit assumption that dev = NULL for ISA devices that require 24bit
>>> DMA.
>> Naive question #1: Why don't we have a struct device for these
>> ISA devices? PNP builds a struct device with DMA_24BIT_MASK
>> for ISAPNP devices.
>
> Because nobody has done the needed work to get all the old ISA drivers
> converted. I guess isa_device would actually be a platform_device
> wrapper ?

No, isa_device is its own thing, on its own isa_bus (*). It has a struct
device * readily available though...

Rene

(*) drivers/base/isa.c, and explanatory changelog at:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=a5117ba7da37deb09df5eb802dace229b3fb1e9f


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