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SubjectRe: [PATCH] highmem I/O for ide-pmac.c
On Thu, Sep 12 2002, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Jens Axboe writes:
>
> > Doesn't look like it's needed at all, at least you never turn on highmem
> > I/O with ide_toggle_bounce() :-)
>
> Foo, neither I do. :(
>
> > BTW, it would be ok to export that from ide-dma.c instead of duplicating
> > it in ide-pmac.
>
> Looking at it again, both ide_build_sglist and ide_raw_build_sglist do
> *almost* what we want. If ide-pmac used hwif->sg_table instead of
> pmif->sg_table, and if ide_[raw_]build_sglist were exported and took
> the maximum number of entries as a parameter instead of using the
> PRD_ENTRIES constant, then ide-pmac wouldn't need to have its own
> versions of those routines. Would those changes be OK?

Sounds like a perfectly fine change to me.

> Ben, any reason why we have to use pmif->sg_table rather than
> hwif->sg_table?

Looks identical to me. hwif->sg_table is kmalloc'ed sg list of
PRD_ENTRIES (256), pmif->sg_table is kmalloc'ed ditto of MAX_DCMDS (256)
entries.

--
Jens Axboe

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