Re: [PATCH -mm 2/5] asm-generic: add NEED_SG_DMA_LENGTH to definesg_dma_len()
From: FUJITA Tomonori
Date: Mon Apr 05 2010 - 20:05:35 EST
On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 08:46:38 +0900
FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 16:35:41 -0700
> Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 4 Apr 2010 23:25:50 +0900
> > FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > There are only two ways to define sg_dma_len(); use sg->dma_length or
> > > sg->length. This patch introduces NEED_SG_DMA_LENGTH that enables
> > > architectures to choose sg->dma_length or sg->length.
> >
> > i386 allnoconfig:
> >
> > arch/x86/kernel/pci-nommu.c: In function 'nommu_map_sg':
> > arch/x86/kernel/pci-nommu.c:71: error: 'struct scatterlist' has no member named 'dma_length'
> >
> > So I enabled NEED_SG_DMA_LENGTH on x86_32 as well. It compiles...
>
> Sorry about that. The fix is fine by me. We can remove dma_length in
> pci-nommu.c though (there is no point of setting dma_length here).
Oops, I forgot that pci-nommu.c is also used on x86_64.
There is no point of setting dma_length here on x86_32 but we need to
do on x86_64 since x86_64 uses dma_length. Your fix is correct.
Sorry again.
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