Re: [PATCH] dc395x: dynamically map scatter-gather for PIO (take 2)

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On Sun, 2 Apr 2006, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> This time I really mean it:-)
> 
> The current dc395x driver uses PIO to transfer up to 4 bytes which do not 
> get transferred by DMA (under unclear circumstances). For this the driver 
> uses page_address() which is broken on highmem. Apart from this the 
> actual calculation of the virtual address is wrong (even without highmem). 
> So, e.g., for reading it reads bytes from the driver to a wrong address 
> and returns wrong data, I guess, for writing it would just output random 
> data to the device.

It's been a week since the patch submission. James, Jamie, I'd really like 
to hear some feedback.

Thanks
Guennadi
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