From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 09:21:29 +0100
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 01:44:06PM -0800, David Mosberger wrote:
> Christoph> IA64 needs to define dma64_addr_t.
>
> Not before the driver writers understand when to use it.
Architecture maintainers are not supposed to decide whether driver
writers understand APIs. The dma64_addr_t type is part of the PCI
DMA interface and IA64 needs to defines it.
You do have a point, but so does David.
What driver wants to get at this type and what are they using it
for? dma_addr_t should be used by every driver I am aware of
except the clustering PCI cards I've been told about and that
driver isn't in the kernel at this time.
So who needs it? :-)
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