[PATCH 4/6] ehea: header files

Michael Ellerman michael at ellerman.id.au
Wed Aug 16 10:58:35 EST 2006


On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 13:07 +0200, Christoph Raisch wrote:
> 
> "Jenkins, Clive" wrote on 15.08.2006 12:53:05:
> 
> > > > You mean the eHEA has its own concept of page size? Separate from
> > the
> > > > page size used by the MMU?
> > > >
> > >
> > > yes, the eHEA currently supports only 4K pages for queues
> >
> > In that case, I suggest use the kernel's page size, but add a
> > compile-time
> > check, and quit with an error message if driver does not support it.
> 
> eHEA does support other page sizes than 4k, but the HW interface expects to
> see 4k pages
> The adaption is done in the device driver, therefore we have a seperate 4k
> define.

Fair enough. You seem to only use it in drivers/net/ehea/ehea_qmr.c, if
so put the definition in there, that way someone is less likely to use
the EHEA_PAGESIZE definition where they really need PAGE_SIZE.

cheers

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