From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 04:21:01 -0800
Message-Id: <200212051221.EAA04710@adam.yggdrasil.com>
To: rmk@arm.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [RFC] generic device DMA implementation
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
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Russell King wrote:
[An excellent explanation of why you sometimes may need consistent
memory.]
>In other words, you _will_ loose information in this case, guaranteed.
>I'd rather keep our existing pci_* API than be forced into this crap
>again.

	All of the proposed API variants that we have discussed in
this thread for pci_alloc_consistent / dma_malloc give you consistent
memory (or fail) unless you specifically tell it that returning
inconsistent memory is OK.

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