From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 08:54:19 -0700 From: Matt Porter To: Pantelis Antoniou Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Regarding consistent_alloc Message-ID: <20021206085419.A17918@home.com> References: <3DF0A39D.2090401@intracom.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <3DF0A39D.2090401@intracom.gr>; from panto@intracom.gr on Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 03:18:21PM +0200 Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 03:18:21PM +0200, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: > > Hi > > Can someone tell what is the deal with these functions? > > consistent_alloc et. al. are very useful to me now that I'm > cleaning up my QMC driver. But they are exported. > > Is there any reason why they are not exported for use by > modules? They are exported in the development trees I use, linuxppc_2_4_devel and linuxppc-2.5. > Also they appear to be tied to the PCI bus, a reduntant > dependancy IMHO. How so? consistent_alloc/consistent_free are independent of pci bus. Use those. pci_* are, by definition, pci-specific and only exported on PCI-based systems. Regards, -- Matt Porter porter@cox.net This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot. ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/