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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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In the specific case mentioned in $subject, i810_audio has already been
fixed by Pete Zaitcev "the right way", and IIRC Gerd or somebody posted
a better patch for bttv, too.  So $subject is actually taken care of...


"David S. Miller" wrote:
> And if nobody else ends up doing it, you are right it will be people
> like Jeff and myself doing it.

and have been doing it in the past :)


> So what we are asking is to allow a few weeks for that and not crap up
> the tree meanwhile.  This is so that the cases that need to be
> converted are harder to find.

Yes, please..


> Actually, you're only half right in one regard.  Most people I've
> pointed to Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt have responded "Oh, never saw
> that before, that looks easy to do.  Thanks I'll fix it up properly
> for you."

I still get plenty of the "but virt_to_phys works fine for me" crowd too
:)

	Jeff



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