Hello Joe and Randy, Maybe there should be another format specifier %da and Randy's clarifying comment can be added there to the documentation? Best regards, Emil Goode On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 03:16:00PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Sat, 2013-06-01 at 14:56 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > It's a bit of a shame that this > > comment was deleted from include/asm-generic/types.h in commit > > 3e50594e8e72932ad4cfcb0b3cbdf58fc3bce416: > > > > -/* > > - * DMA addresses may be very different from physical addresses > > - * and pointers. i386 and powerpc may have 64 bit DMA on 32 bit > > - * systems, while sparc64 uses 32 bit DMA addresses for 64 bit > > - * physical addresses. > > - * This default defines dma_addr_t to have the same size as > > - * phys_addr_t, which is the most common way. > > - * Do not define the dma64_addr_t type, which never really > > - * worked. > > - */ > > Hey Randy. > > You could always put it back. > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
