From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Removal of dma_cache_* functions?
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:57:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1188910630.3435.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070904124212.GR14130@parisc-linux.org>
On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 06:42 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 12:56:16PM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> > Most architectures implement the dma_cache_wback, dma_cache_wback_inv
> > and dma_cache_wback_inv functions even though there is the more modern
> > and much better designed DMA API and only two MIPS-specific users (one of
> > which I just fixed) do remain. So should we finally start removing it?
>
> There's still some users in arch/, but yes, let's remove it from the
> arches that don't use it internally.
There's the updated dma_cache_sync() API, which you need to keep because
the parisc lasi scsi and network drivers rely on it for our fully
incoherent boxes.
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-04 12:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-04 11:56 Removal of dma_cache_* functions? Ralf Baechle
2007-09-04 12:42 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-09-04 12:57 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2007-09-04 13:07 ` Ralf Baechle
2007-09-04 23:49 ` James Bottomley
2007-09-11 13:44 ` Jes Sorensen
2007-09-11 13:58 ` Ralf Baechle
2007-09-04 13:07 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-09-04 13:33 ` Ralf Baechle
2007-09-06 11:39 ` [PATCH] Removal of dma_cache_(wback|inv|wback_inv) functions Ralf Baechle
2007-09-06 14:55 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-09-06 15:02 ` David Miller
2007-09-06 15:02 ` Kyle McMartin
2007-09-06 21:28 ` Håvard Skinnemoen
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