From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 17:40:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 17:40:37 -0400 Received: from mail.scsiguy.com ([63.229.232.106]:59909 "EHLO aslan.scsiguy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 17:40:28 -0400 Message-Id: <200108222140.f7MLeUY17166@aslan.scsiguy.com> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard_Roudier?= cc: "David S. Miller" , axboe@suse.de, skraw@ithnet.com, phillips@bonn-fries.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: With Daniel Phillips Patch In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 Aug 2001 23:07:47 +0200." <20010822223658.X932-100000@gerard> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 15:40:30 -0600 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >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