[PATCH] Implement pci_set_dma_mask() in terms of the dma_ops
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Dec 18 11:40:22 EST 2007
On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 11:02 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 05:35:53PM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > To save adding a hook to the dma mapping ops, pci-set_consistent_dma_mask()
> > simply calls the dma_set_mask() hook and then copies the new mask into
> > dev.coherenet_dma_mask.
>
> How is this supposed to work? There are various devices around that
> want different mask for coherent vs streaming dma mappings, and we need
> to tell the iommu that we're setting it for either the former or the
> latter.
I don't think we ever supported that difference. Too broken HW for us.
We don't use coherent_dma_mask for anything at the moment on powerpc.
Ben.
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