Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Dec 2002 12:48:43 -0500 | Subject | Re: [RFC] generic device DMA implementation | From | Miles Bader <> |
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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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