From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: "Ivan G." <ivangurdiev@yahoo.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.5.8 compile bugs
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 14:09:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020415120927.GO12608@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020415115131.GN12608@suse.de> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0204151356070.26237-100000@serv>
On Mon, Apr 15 2002, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> > > That's not enough, some archs don't define pci_alloc_consistent/
> > > pci_free_consistent, because they have neither PCI nor ISA.
> >
> > Please, then those archs need to provide similar functionality. This is
> > the established api, unless you want to change the documentation and xxx
> > number of drivers?
>
> These functions are only specified for PCI/ISA and there was no need so
In my mind these are generic functions, it's a shame that they come with
a pci_ prefix and take a pci dev as first argument (the NULL for isa
seems like a kludge).
> far to implement them. It's no problem to provide the functionality, but I
> have to know with what API.
Should be very easy for you to provide similar functionality for m68k,
just take a look at the x86 functions.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-15 12:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-14 22:48 2.5.8 compile bugs Ivan G.
2002-04-15 7:07 ` Jens Axboe
2002-04-15 11:47 ` Roman Zippel
2002-04-15 11:51 ` Jens Axboe
2002-04-15 12:04 ` Roman Zippel
2002-04-15 12:09 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2002-04-15 12:31 ` Roman Zippel
2002-04-15 16:01 ` andrew may
2002-04-15 17:30 ` Roman Zippel
2002-04-15 17:32 ` Jens Axboe
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