[PATCH] pci: print out DMA mask info

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:50:12PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:[color=blue]
> Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> writes:
>[color=green]
> > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 09:28:33PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:[color=darkred]
> >> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 06:45:10PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> >> > Grant prefer to add it /sys instead of showing in bootlog
> >> >
> >> > so could catch if the driver set the correct dma_mask.
> >>
> >> I still don't think this is useful information to be exposing.[/color]
> >
> > It's useful for anyone involved with device drivers - we agree that's
> > a very limited subset of users. I certainly get fed up with trying
> > to figure out which dma_mask each driver is using since in some[/color]
>
> One simple way that doesn't need any kernel changes is to use
> crash on the running kernel.[/color]

I would agree if someone can show me how to script crash to dump
all the struct pci_dev DMA masks and associate that output with
a driver and device instance.
[color=blue]
> I personally just stuck in printks
> when I needed that, but it doesn't strike me as something that
> is generally useful in standard kernels (agreeing with Willy)[/color]

Ok.

thanks,
grant
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