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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 07:56:58 -0700
From: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Pantelis Antoniou <panto@intracom.gr>
Cc: joakim.tjernlund@lumentis.se, acurtis@directvinternet.com,
	Dan Malek <dan@embeddededge.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@au1.ibm.com>, Matt Porter <porter@cox.net>,
	linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Regarding consistent_alloc
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On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 11:58:45AM +0200, Pantelis Antoniou wrote:

[snip]
> I think it's safe to assume that there is large amount of confussion at
> this subject.

Definatly.

> FWIW I dislike the use of iopa(), and I would be forced to duplicate the
> code of
> consistent_alloc() class of functions in my tree.

Why would you have to duplicate the consistent_alloc code?  It is not
tied to PCI, really.

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Tom Rini (TR1265)
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