| Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/10] DMA-API debugging facility | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:54:52 +0000 |
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On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 17:26 +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote: > this patchset introduces code to debug drivers usage of the DMA-API. > Tests with hardware IOMMUs have shown several bugs in drivers > regarding the usage of that API. > Problems were found especially in network card drivers.
This is really useful -- but surely it shouldn't be x86-specific?
All the code except the hooks in the architecture's dma_map_single() et al functions could be generic, couldn't it?
-- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation
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