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Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] remove unneeded check in bcm43xx
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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> I still think we shouldn't reward shit hardware by complicating
> up our DMA mappings internals. :-)

BTW. In the meantime, can't that driver work in PIO only mode ?

Ben.