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Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 19:55:51 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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To: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] generic device DMA implementation
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Adam J. Richter wrote:
> On 2002-12-04, James Bottomley wrote:
> 
> 
>>Now that we have the generic device model, it should be equally possible to 
>>rephrase the entire [DMA] API for generic devices instead of pci_devs.
> 
> 
> 	Yes.  This issue has come up repeatedly.  I'd really like to
> see a change like yours integrated soon to stop the spread of fake PCI
> devices (including the pcidev==NULL convention) and other contortions
> being used to work around this.  Also, such a change would enable
> consolidation of certain memory allocations and their often buggy
> error branches from hundred of drivers into a few places.


Agreed.  I'm glad James is doing this work, it will clean up a lot of 
assumptions and corner-case-uglies...

	Jeff



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