Re: 2.5.4 sound module problem

[John Weber]

Alan wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 February 2002 19:51, Albert Cranford wrote:
> 
>>Not sure if this was the same message I received. but here
>>is the patch I used to get around my sound problem in
>>2.5.4.
>>
> 
> Are you sure this is correct?  include/asm/io.h seems to indicate that i/o 
> addresses for PCI may not map correctly.  The sound card I am using is PCI, 
> not ISA.

You should not use isa_virt_to_bus.  IIRC someone on this list worried 
about this exact thing happening.

> Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt says that virt_to_bus is completly depreciated 
> and nothing should be using it.  Well, grepping the kernel source shows that 
> quite a bit still uses it.

This is on the kernel janitor TODO, and we (janitors) will be tackling 
this shortly.  But your instinct is right, virt_to_bus shouldn't be 
everywhere.

> What it looks like, on first glance, is that virt_to_bus  was changed for pci 
> devices to give this error message.  (Since that symbol goes nowhere.)  That 
> effects a number of things, not just sound. (A whole bunch of cardbus drivers 
> I would guess...)

This is correct.  It has been a policy to use pci_alloc_consistent 
instead of kmalloc/getfreepages and virt_to_bus, 2.5 is enforcing it now.

It is boring work to change this in many drivers, but I don't know any 
better so I think it quite fun to go in and help :).  I'll start sending 
patches to the relevant maintainers shortly.

By the way, anyone know who the maintainer is for the persistent DMA 
buffer code?

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