[openfabrics-ewg] [PATCH] ehca backport openib_dma_addr_t_ofed_1.1_to_2_6_9.patch

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Hoang-Nam Nguyen <hnguyen at de.ibm.com>:
> Subject: [PATCH] ehca backport openib_dma_addr_t_ofed_1.1_to_2_6_9.patch
> 
> Hi,
> this patch below is required to run ipoib, mad etc on ehca device driver,
> kernel 2.6.9, ppc64.

Please note 2.6.9 from kernel.org is not supported by OFED -
these backports are actually for RHEL4 U2.

> The main changes are replacing dma_addr_t by dma64_addr_t
> and dma_map/unmap_single() by dma64_map/unmap_single().
> I did commit it into contrib/ibm/gen2/backport/2.6.9.
> Thanks!
> Nam Nguyen

This does not make sense to me.
Can we just do
#define dma_map dma64_map
And what will this do on non-ppc arches?
I don't think we can add such intrusive patches at this late stage.

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