tree b5eb725f61202e9a238c538972f1d89387b40d22
parent 2cb9a8c00734a55d1a0291f4cec6f856ed22b6af
author [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue Apr 12 08:24:32 2005
committer Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue Apr 12 08:24:32 2005

[PATCH] arm: add comment about dma_supported()


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From: Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

The ARM dma_supported() is rather basic, and I don't think it takes into
account everything that it should do (eg, whether the mask agrees with what
we'd return for GFP_DMA allocations).  Note this.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

 dma-mapping.h |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+)

Index: include/asm-arm/dma-mapping.h
===================================================================
--- f567341c4142edf5a743f8a8250574cc2e99dd9d/include/asm-arm/dma-mapping.h  
(mode:100644 sha1:15340fe6a22a4e155de798d9b2e5eba12ce7405b)
+++ b5eb725f61202e9a238c538972f1d89387b40d22/include/asm-arm/dma-mapping.h  
(mode:100644 sha1:334005ab15776f991a6a03adcb8c5a6ceac3228e)
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@
  * properly.  For example, if your device can only drive the low 24-bits
  * during bus mastering, then you would pass 0x00ffffff as the mask
  * to this function.
+ *
+ * FIXME: This should really be a platform specific issue - we should
+ * return false if GFP_DMA allocations may not satisfy the supplied 'mask'.
  */
 static inline int dma_supported(struct device *dev, u64 mask)
 {
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