Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] move dma_mask into struct device | Date | Sat, 16 Nov 2002 18:23:48 +0100 |
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J.E.J. Bottomley [James.Bottomley@steeleye.com] wrote:
> Attached is a patch which moves dma_mask into struct device and cleans up the > scsi mid-layer to use it (instead of using struct pci_dev). The advantage to > doing this is probably most apparent on non-pci bus architectures where > currently you have to construct a fake pci_dev just so you can get the bounce > buffers to work correctly.
That does not sound like the right way to me. If you need to have the dma_mask for the Scsi_Host, you should store it in Scsi_Host itself. A struct device must never know about obscure architecture specific stuff like dma.
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