[PATCH] b43: Mask out unwanted bits of RX slot address

Michael Büsch m at bues.ch
Sat Aug 13 15:38:54 EDT 2011


On Sat, 13 Aug 2011 21:10:34 +0200
Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I still have to understand that B43_DMA_RINGMEMSIZE (it's equal to
> PAGE_SIZE, which is calculated in some magic way).

Well, I guess there's some kind of legacy involved here.
In the early days we used to allocate the ring memory
with the page allocator. We simply allocated one page.
So the size of the memory would always be equal to PAGE_SIZE.

-- 
Greetings, Michael.



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