On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 11:34:58PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Where does the device come from? What device is it?
> 
> At the higher level someone passed us a device and some mappings and
> function methods and said "this is an IDE controller"

Ok you're stabbing in the dark. I guess more debugging is needed.

> > But at least on x86-64 the device is likely DMA capable. At least
> > PCMCIA usually is.  Near all devices are DMA capable, except perhaps
> 
> PCMCIA usally isn't.

Hmm?

> I don't want to know about arch internals. I don't want to know about
> platform specific DMA rules. I just want to be able to ask for DMA and
> get told yes or no. Oops is not a useful error return.

I'm not blaming libata here, just whoever gave that bogus device to it.

-Andi

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