Re: [PATCH] alpha: Add DMA_ERROR_CODE defn to avert compiler errorin drm

From: FUJITA Tomonori
Date: Fri May 06 2011 - 20:06:36 EST


On Fri, 6 May 2011 09:49:25 -0400
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 09:30:03PM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> > On Wed, 4 May 2011 20:13:37 +1200
> > Michael Cree <mcree@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > The radeon drm code now relies on DMA_ERROR_CODE. This defines
> > > it in alpha dma-mapping header to at least enable me to compile
> > > radeon drm/kms into kernel.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Michael Cree <mcree@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > arch/alpha/include/asm/dma-mapping.h | 2 ++
> > > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >
> > This isn't correct. The drivers should not use DMA_ERROR_CODE directly
> > (some architecture specific drivers use it though). Fix rademon
> > drm/kms instead.
>
> What would be a proper value for non-existent bus addresses? As in the value
> had not been set? 0?

Zero is a valid DMA address for some devices.
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