Re: [PATCH] sky2: Fix WARNING: at lib/dma-debug.c:902 check_sync

[David Miller]

From: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 10:18:39 +0900

> Can we safely assume that the arch implementations already round
> up/down to the safe boundary internally in this API (they should
> already)?

I can only speak for sparc64 and x86 directly and those are fine.

Any such improper implementations would fail with many common
ethernet drivers already.

> I don't like two DMA docs. I like to make pci_dma_* API obsolete. We
> have the generic DMA API with generic devices so we are always able to
> use the API (as you did with sbus_map_*). The majority arch
> implementations safely call the bus specific DMA functions via the
> generic DMA API. So there are not many things to do. We can just
> convert pci_dma_* to dma_* API slowly.
> 
> Opinions?

I have no problem with this.
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