On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 04:38:15PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > This patchset adds API and one user for a "weak" dma_set_mask(). > Weak means that it will fallback to smaller masks in case the > DMA subsystem rejects a big mask. > Currently such rejection may happen if the driver requests a 64bit > mask on a VIA machine, for example. dma_set_mask_weak() will fallback > to 32bit, in that case, and tell the caller about it by modifying the > passed mask. Why do we need it? Is the call to set the 32bit mask when it fails a too big burden for the driver author? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
