> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 9:55 PM
> To: Li Yang-r58472
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 
> linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org; Kalra Ashish-B00888; Li Yang-r58472
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] drivers/ata: add support to Freescale 
> 3.0Gbps SATA Controller
> 
> > +   cd = pp->cmdentry + tag;
> > +
> > +   memcpy(fis, &cd->sfis, 6 * 4);  /* should we use 
> memcpy_from_io() */
> 
> If cd->sfis points at memory over the PCI bus (eg mmio or 
> memory on the controller card) then you need to use 
> ioread/_io type functions. If
> cd->sfis points into host memory where the FIS is delivered 
> by DMA from
> the card you will be fine if it was allocated with an 
> _coherent allocator

Thanks for the clarification.  So the code here is ok, that we use
command descriptor from dma_alloc_coherent().  :)

- Leo
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