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From: Jens Axboe on 17 Jun 2010 09:00
On 2010-06-17 14:48, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 08:18:15 +0200
> Jens Axboe <jaxboe(a)fusionio.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 01 2010, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
>>> On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 20:24:52 +0200
>>> Jens Axboe <jaxboe(a)fusionio.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, May 31 2010, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
>>>>> This patchset removes useless ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD:
>>>>>
>>>>> - ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD is irrelevant to the majority of architectures but
>>>>> they have to define it.
>>>>>
>>>>> - ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD definition is inconsistent on architectures; ISA
>>>>> DMA addressing restriction, DMA addressing restriction or something
>>>>> else.
>>>>>
>>>>> - Everyone (except for SCSI) uses dma_mask instead of ancient
>>>>> ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD.
>>>>>
>>>>> Only SCSI uses ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD for ancient drivers with non-zero
>>>>> unchecked_isa_dma. We can safely remove ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD usage in
>>>>> SCSI. So we can clean up ISA_DMA_THRESHOLD on the whole tree.
>>>>
>>>> Looks good. James, it's probably easier if I just carry this patch set.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Any tree works for me, I thought about -mm though.
>>>
>>> Can you replace [1/3] with the following?
>>>
>>> I fixed the subject and the body, s/aha1532/aha1542/;
>>>
>>> Somehow I forgot to remove unused BAD_SG_DMA().
>>
>> I'll collect the acks and include this update.
>
> Can you send this to -next via your tree? I want this to be
> compile-tested on -next on various architectures.

Yep, going out now.


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Jens Axboe

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