Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 04 Dec 2002 19:55:51 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] generic device DMA implementation |
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Adam J. Richter wrote: > On 2002-12-04, James Bottomley wrote: > > >>Now that we have the generic device model, it should be equally possible to >>rephrase the entire [DMA] API for generic devices instead of pci_devs. > > > Yes. This issue has come up repeatedly. I'd really like to > see a change like yours integrated soon to stop the spread of fake PCI > devices (including the pcidev==NULL convention) and other contortions > being used to work around this. Also, such a change would enable > consolidation of certain memory allocations and their often buggy > error branches from hundred of drivers into a few places.
Agreed. I'm glad James is doing this work, it will clean up a lot of assumptions and corner-case-uglies...
Jeff
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