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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/10] DMA-API debugging facility
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 06:18:02PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 17:57 +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > > Yes, in principle we could move most of it to generic code. There is
> > > nothing architecture specific in it.
> > > Anybody who prefers this to be arch/x86 before moving it to lib/?
> >
> > I think it's better to start off with a generic version, and test it
> > on more than one architecture before feeding it upstream. That way,
> > you know you aren't going to have to go back to the drawing board
> > with it.
>
> Joerg, i'd suggest to make the generic conceptual bits generic, and
> add an HAVE_DMA_DEBUG_SUPPORT Kconfig bool flag to every architecture
> that enables it. It needs active changes to every architecture that
> supports this facility.

Ok, I will move the generic bits to lib/ and include/linux and let
architectures decide if they want to use it.

Joerg

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