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Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 17:34:40 -0500
From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
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Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: SLAB vs. pci_alloc_xxx in usb-uhci patch [RFC: API]
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> Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 13:14:03 -0800
> From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>

>[...]
> It feels to me like you're being inconsistent here, objecting
> to a library API for some functionality (mapping) yet not for
> any of the other functionality (alignment, small size, poisoning
> and so on).  And yet when Pete Zaitcev described what that
> mapping code actually involved, you didn't object.  So you've
> succeeded in confusing me.  Care to unconfuse?

I did not propose an API or library which would be equal amond equals
with first rate citizens of pci_alloc_xxx and friends. I pointed out
that driver can do tracking of reverse mappings at very little cost
by using offset [Alan remarked to that how hash can use page number];
so, one may say that I supported DaveM's viewpoint. No wonder he did
not object.

-- Pete
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