Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752442Ab0DMT1i (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:27:38 -0400 Received: from iolanthe.rowland.org ([192.131.102.54]:44469 "HELO iolanthe.rowland.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751500Ab0DMT1g (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:27:36 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:27:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Alan Stern X-X-Sender: stern@iolanthe.rowland.org To: Daniel Mack cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH , Pedro Ribeiro , , , , Robert Hancock , Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: rename usb_buffer_alloc() and usb_buffer_free() In-Reply-To: <20100413181631.GT30801@buzzloop.caiaq.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 959 Lines: 27 On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Daniel Mack wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 01:17:25PM +0200, Daniel Mack wrote: > > For more clearance what the functions actually do, > > > > usb_buffer_alloc() is renamed to usb_alloc_coherent() > > usb_buffer_free() is renamed to usb_free_coherent() > > > > They should only be used in code which really needs DMA coherency. > > > > All call sites have been changed accordingly, except for staging > > drivers. > > Is this ok? As it's quite big, I think it should be merged soon if there > are no objections. I have no objection. All it does is rename a couple of functions. There's no reason for this to go into 2.6.34; it can wait for the next merge window. Alan Stern -- 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/