Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 4 Nov 2005 23:52:57 +0000 | | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] export ia64_max_cacheline_size |
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On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 02:55:34PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Can we please move dma_get_cache_alignment() out of line instead? > > It's a single statement! It wants to be inlined. > > > Always export sane APIs instead of random internals. > > The exported API is dma_get_cache_alignment(). For internal implementation > reasons we need to export an ia64 symbol to modules to support it. That > kinda sucks, but I don't think that we need to compromise kernel size and > performance because of it.
It's an API used only in slow pathes. It's much better to enforce modularity in that case. - 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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