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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2002 22:49:30 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id: <20021103.224930.126609155.davem@redhat.com>
To: adam@yggdrasil.com
Cc: mochel@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com
Subject: Re: Patch: linux-2.5.45/drivers/base/bus.c - new field to
 consolidate memory allocation in many drivers
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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   From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
   Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 14:40:22 -0800
   
   	Dave M.: I am cc'ing this to because you asked for a
   bus-independent API for allocating DMA consistent memory when I
   discusssed consolidating some other driver DMA mapping operations
   about six months ago.

I don't know how much I like the DMA memory being allocated
transparently based upon some structure initialization values.

I'd rather the DMA alloc/free be explicit in the drivers.

Otherwise, the ->ops->alloc_consistent et al. abstraction
looks ok.
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