Re: [RFC/PATCH] remove unneeded check in bcm43xx

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 14:34 -0700, David S. Miller wrote:

> I still think we shouldn't reward shit hardware by complicating
> up our DMA mappings internals. :-)

Heh, it's a good point but in that specific case, it's a bit difficult
to tell that to users who don't have a choice of what card to put in
apple proprietary slot ... =P

> If you're going to do it anyways, we use a nearly identical
> allocation bitmap algorithm under sparc64 so maybe you can
> take a stab at trying to put your code there too.  I'm more
> than happy to test and integrate.

I may give it a go later this week. I don't have a wireless card in my
g5 so I'll need to ping-pong the patch with testers first tho.

Ben.


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