Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265775AbUFRX15 (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2004 19:27:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265777AbUFRX14 (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2004 19:27:56 -0400 Received: from outmail1.freedom2surf.net ([194.106.33.237]:26768 "EHLO outmail.freedom2surf.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264906AbUFRX1l (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jun 2004 19:27:41 -0400 Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 00:26:18 +0100 From: Ian Molton To: Jeff Garzik Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com, tony@atomide.com, david-b@pacbell.net, jamey.hicks@hp.com, joshua@joshuawise.com, James.Bottomley@steeleye.com Subject: Re: DMA API issues Message-Id: <20040619002618.5650e16a.spyro@f2s.com> In-Reply-To: <40D359B3.6080400@pobox.com> References: <20040618175902.778e616a.spyro@f2s.com> <40D359B3.6080400@pobox.com> Organization: The Dragon Roost X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12-gtk2-20040617 (GTK+ 2.4.1; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 612 Lines: 14 On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 17:08:03 -0400 Jeff Garzik wrote: > You _might_ convince the kernel DMA gurus that this could be done by > creating a driver-specific bus, and pointing struct device to that > internal bus, but that seems like an awful lot of work as opposed to the > wrappers. Its an awful lot less work than re-writing all those drivers! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/