Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Oct 2004 19:00:06 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Introduce PCI <-> CPU address conversion [1/2] |
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On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 02:53:23PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 01:53:48PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > I'd rather have this declared in every architectures asm/ header, so it's > > more explicit that it's an per-arch thing. Also make it a static inline > > so we get typechecking. > > I actually don't want typechecking. Sometimes you have a device and > sometimes you have a bus. You can get everything you want (sysdata) > from either, so there's no point in doing dev->bus when all you needed > was right there.
For some architectures the sysdata is different for bus vs device, so yes, we do want strict typechecking.
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