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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 02:42:24 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: PCI DMA to small buffers on cache-incoherent arch
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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   From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
   Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 19:33:47 +0200

   >This is one of the reasons I want to fix this by making people use
   >either consistent memory or PCI pools (which is consistent memory
   >too).
   
   Please don't limit the API design to PCI ;)
   
When I say "PCI pools" think "struct device pools" because that
will what it will be in the end.

That is Linus's long range plan, everything you see as pci_*
will become dev_*.

So I'm not really limiting the design in any way.
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