From: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:21:13 +0900 > On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 23:24:44 -0700 > "Michael Chan" <mchan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> David, why is dma_is_consistent() always returning 1 on sparc? The >> streaming DMA is not consistent. > > I think that there are some confusion about dma_is_consistent(). Some > architectures think that dma_is_consistent() is supposed to return 1 > if they can allocate coherent memory (note that some architectures > can't allocate coherent memory). Right, and that's why it's defined this way. If the desired meaning is different, just me know and I'll fix the sparc definition. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
