Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Apr 2003 13:32:03 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [Patch] DMA mapping API for Alpha |
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On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 04:08:24PM +0400, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: > This won't change the fact that alpha is PCI-centric (as well as > most other architectures) and in general "struct device" doesn't > provide sufficient DMA information, unlike "struct pci_dev". > pci_* being emulated means pci_dev to device translation and then > rather complex and ugly device to pci_dev translation in arch code.
Well, if you're arch doesn't support any struct device * but those embedded in struct pci_dev or NULL you don't need to do much but sticking a to_pci_dev() ontop of each function.
Btw, did you read my posting from Friday on this issue? The subjects is '[HEADS UP] planned change to <asm-generic/dma-mapping.h> will cause +arch breakage' - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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