From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755093AbZELIFj (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 May 2009 04:05:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753492AbZELIFU (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 May 2009 04:05:20 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:42668 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752934AbZELIFS (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 May 2009 04:05:18 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 09:06:02 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ata: libata depends on HAS_DMA Message-ID: <20090512090602.65722342@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <200905112238.55404.arnd@arndb.de> References: <20090511222702.352192505@arndb.de> <200905112238.55404.arnd@arndb.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.14.7; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 11 May 2009 22:38:55 +0000 Arnd Bergmann wrote: > libata uses the DMA mapping API, so it cannot be built > on architectures that don't have DMA support. > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Nakked-by: Alan Cox Almost every PATA adapter can fall back to PIO, many are PIO only. We need a rather cleaner way to sort this.