Brandeburg, Jesse wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 05:27:59PM +0100, Anders Grafström wrote:
>>> The e100 driver triggers BUG_ON(buf->direction != dir)
>>> by doing pci_map_single(..., PCI_DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL)
>>> and pci_dma_sync_single_for_device(..., PCI_DMA_TODEVICE).
>>>
>>> I'm guessing it's allowed to do that and that something like
>>> the patch below is called for?
>> No, it is not allowed to do that - that's why it's called "BUG_ON".
>> Changing the DMA direction, especially with dmabounce will result
>> in unexpected behaviour.
> 
> okay, how about this patch...  only compile tested as I couldn't get 
> net-next-2.6 to boot on my test machine.  I'll get some testing done on 
> this, but in the meantime....
> 
> e100: fix dma error in direction for mapping
> 
> From: Jesse Brandeburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

I failed to save this patch (flowed format?) but I applied it manually
to 2.6.28-rc4 and tried it. Appears to work.


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