Re: [PATCH] [v6] net: emac: emac gigabit ethernet controller driver

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Arnd Bergmann wrote:
That's also not how it works: each device starts out with a 32-bit mask,
because that's what historically all PCI devices can do. If a device
is 64-bit DMA capable, it can extend the mask by passing DMA_BIT_MASK(64)
(or whatever it can support), and the platform code checks if that's
possible.

So if it's not possible, then dma_set_mask returns an error, and the driver should try a smaller mask? Doesn't that mean that every driver for a 64-bit device should do this:

	for (i = 64; i >=32; i--) {
		ret = dma_set_mask_and_coherent(dev, DMA_BIT_MASK(i));
		if (!ret)
			break;
	}

	if (ret)
		return ret;

Sure, this is overkill, but it seems to me that the driver does not really know what mask is actually valid, so it has to find the largest mask that works.

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