Re: With Daniel Phillips Patch

From: Justin T. Gibbs (gibbs@scsiguy.com)
Date: Wed Aug 22 2001 - 16:40:30 EST

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>I seem to understand that Justin's is referring to the DMA related API of
>BSD O/Ses that, I believe, originates from NetBSD.

Not really. I just don't think that having both a 32bit and a 64bit
type for dma_addr_t makes sense. I'm not advocating all devices perform
DAC.

I've started looking through the network devices for bloat caused
by the change in size of this type and I haven't found it anywhere.

--
Justin
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