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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: "Bagalkote, Sreenivas" <sreenib@lsil.com>
Cc: "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"'linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	"'James Bottomley'" <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
	"'Matt_Domsch@Dell.com'" <Matt_Domsch@Dell.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	"'Christoph Hellwig'" <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCE][PATCH 2.6.11 2/3] megaraid_sas: Announcing new mod ule  for LSI Logic's SAS based MegaRAID controllers
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 09:06:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1110355598.6280.61.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0E3FA95632D6D047BA649F95DAB60E570230CC18@exa-atlanta>

On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 18:08 -0500, Bagalkote, Sreenivas wrote:
> 
> I will make this an instance parameter if the idea to reduce as many
> global variables as possible. But if the objection is because each
> adapter
> may have different value for variable, then it is indeed a global
> value.
> "is_dma64" - which is computed using the size of dma_addr_t - is
> telling
> something about the kernel rather than the controller feature.
> 

then having it as variable sounds really really wrong; the size of
dma_addr_t is a compile time property...
(and why do you care about it? you see high dma addresses when they come
in, right?)


  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-09  8:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-08 23:08 Bagalkote, Sreenivas
2005-03-09  8:06 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-03-09 23:56 Bagalkote, Sreenivas
2005-03-09 22:47 Bagalkote, Sreenivas
2005-03-09 22:59 ` 'Christoph Hellwig'
     [not found] <fa.ia0cbem.oiit9q@ifi.uio.no>
2005-03-09 17:59 ` Bodo Eggert
2005-03-09 17:44 Bagalkote, Sreenivas
2005-03-09 18:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-03-09 16:01 Bagalkote, Sreenivas
2005-03-09 17:16 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-03-09 14:43 Bagalkote, Sreenivas
2005-03-09 15:52 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-03-09 22:03 ` 'Christoph Hellwig'
2005-03-08 22:58 Bagalkote, Sreenivas

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