Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932335AbVIZVzX (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:55:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932334AbVIZVzX (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:55:23 -0400 Received: from ra.tuxdriver.com ([24.172.12.4]:14601 "EHLO ra.tuxdriver.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932333AbVIZVzV (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:55:21 -0400 Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:54:50 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, discuss@x86-64.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, ak@suse.de, tony.luck@intel.com, Asit.K.Mallick@intel.com, gregkh@suse.de Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.14-rc2 0/5] swiotlb maintenance and x86_64 dma_sync_single_range_for_{cpu,device} Message-ID: <20050926215447.GB5640@tuxdriver.com> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Wilcox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, discuss@x86-64.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, ak@suse.de, tony.luck@intel.com, Asit.K.Mallick@intel.com, gregkh@suse.de References: <09262005170119.15628@bilbo.tuxdriver.com> <20050926213326.GF1459@parisc-linux.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050926213326.GF1459@parisc-linux.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1061 Lines: 26 On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 03:33:26PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 05:01:19PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > > In this round, the new location for swiotlb is driver/pci/swiotlb.c. > > This is the result of discussions on lkml pointing-out that swiotlb is > > closely related to PCI. > > Uh? It implements DMA services, which aren't limited to PCI at all. > Despite the file including and (which should > probably both be removed), there's not a single PCI-related function in > this file. You originally moved it to lib/ which made much more sense. Well, now, this is a quandry isn't it... Actually, I'm inclined to agree with you. Tony, et al., care to restate your reasoning for moving it under drivers/pci? John -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com - 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/