dma_alloc_coherent() on x86 currently takes a passed in NULL device
pointer to mean that it should allocate an ISA compatible (24-bit) buffer
which is a bit of a hack.
The ALSA ISA drivers are the main consumers of this but have a struct
device in fact readily available.
For the legacy drivers, this sets the device dma_mask in preparation for
using the actual device with the DMA API so as to eventually not need the
NULL hack in dma_alloc_coherent().
This does not fix a current bug -- 2.6.26-rc1 stumbled over the NULL hack
in dma_alloc_coherent() but this has already been fixed in commit
4a367f3a9d by Takashi Iwai.
Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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