Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:54:50 -0400 | From | "John W. Linville" <> | Subject | Re: [patch 2.6.14-rc2 0/5] swiotlb maintenance and x86_64 dma_sync_single_range_for_{cpu,device} |
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On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 03:33:26PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 05:01:19PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > > In this round, the new location for swiotlb is driver/pci/swiotlb.c. > > This is the result of discussions on lkml pointing-out that swiotlb is > > closely related to PCI. > > Uh? It implements DMA services, which aren't limited to PCI at all. > Despite the file including <linux.pci.h> and <asm/pci.h> (which should > probably both be removed), there's not a single PCI-related function in > this file. You originally moved it to lib/ which made much more sense.
Well, now, this is a quandry isn't it... Actually, I'm inclined to agree with you.
Tony, et al., care to restate your reasoning for moving it under drivers/pci?
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