Re: [PATCH 3/5] add sg segment limitation info to device structure

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On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 07:39:02PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 07:36:10PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> > One possibility we could do is to add a
> > 
> > struct dma_device {
> > 	struct device dev;
> > 	u64 dma_mask;
> > 	u64 coherent_dma_mask;
> > 	unsigned int max_segment_size;
> > 	/* plus any other DMA parameters */
> > };
> > 
> > but then every bus that can do DMA would need to include a struct
> > dma_device instead of the struct device they do now.  Then the IOMMU
> > would know it could cast out from struct device to struct dma_device,
> > but this would be a lot of work to thread through the current
> > infrastructure.

Why not just hang these fields off of a struct device, that way if the
device doesn't/can't do dma, it only has the "loss" of a single pointer,
not all of these fields?

thanks,

greg k-h
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