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DateFri, 6 Dec 2002 12:48:43 -0500
SubjectRe: [RFC] generic device DMA implementation
FromMiles Bader <>
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 10:26:57AM -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
> I'm not so keen on this.  The idea of this parameter is not to tell the 
> allocation routine what type of memory you would like, but to tell it what 
> type of memory the driver can cope with.  I think for the inconsistent case, 
> DMA_INCONSISTENT looks like the driver is requiring inconsistent memory, and 
> expecting to get it.

Of course if they're flags, then `DMA_CONSISTENT | DMA_INCONSISTENT'
is pretty obvious...
-Miles

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