Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 May 2002 13:23:30 -0500 (CDT) | From | Kai Germaschewski <> | Subject | Re: [BK PATCH] PCI reorg fix |
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On Thu, 9 May 2002, Patrick Mochel wrote:
> I would suggest something like: > > void * > dev_alloc_consistent(struct device * dev, size_t size, dma_addr_t * dma_handle); > > and moving dma_mask to struct device. > > To handle differences in arch-specific implementations, we could have a > callback that the generic code calls. > > Implementing the generic code is ~5 minutes work. However, it will break > everything. OTOH, it would be the best motivation for modernizing these > drivers...
Certainly sounds reasonable. I'd guess it's trivial enough to provide wrappers for pci_alloc_consistent(), pci_set_dma_mask() etc., so I don't see why everything would break?
--Kai
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