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Re: Devices not at mainbus?



On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 06:06:08PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> 
> Does it matter? Is there a case where a driver's notion of MAXPHYS
> should depend on anything other than the buses it's attached to?

I see you say "buses".  So I assume you're taking into account funny
constraints to do with bus bridges.

Some ports do have limits stricter than those actually associated with
any physical bus in the machine.  Xen is a good example.

Thor


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