From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce PCI <-> CPU address conversion [1/2]
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 07:19:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041015071926.GA11457@twiddle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041014143924.GP16153@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 03:39:24PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> I can't use it in the symbios driver because it only exists on alpha,
> arm, mips, parisc, ppc, ppc64, sparc64 and v850. It doesn't exist on
> i386, ia64, x86_64, arm26, cris, h8300, m32r, sh, sh64 or sparc.
So you conclude from 50% of the ports implementing things in a
particular way that you should invent a totally new interface?
Isn't the obvious solution to implement the existing interface
for the ports that don't have it?
r~
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce PCI <-> CPU address conversion [1/2]
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 00:19:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041015071926.GA11457@twiddle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041014143924.GP16153@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 03:39:24PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> I can't use it in the symbios driver because it only exists on alpha,
> arm, mips, parisc, ppc, ppc64, sparc64 and v850. It doesn't exist on
> i386, ia64, x86_64, arm26, cris, h8300, m32r, sh, sh64 or sparc.
So you conclude from 50% of the ports implementing things in a
particular way that you should invent a totally new interface?
Isn't the obvious solution to implement the existing interface
for the ports that don't have it?
r~
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-15 7:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-14 12:47 [PATCH] Introduce PCI <-> CPU address conversion [1/2] Matthew Wilcox
2004-10-14 12:47 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-10-14 12:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-10-14 12:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-10-14 13:53 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-10-14 13:53 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-10-14 18:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-10-14 18:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-10-14 18:07 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-10-14 18:07 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-10-14 22:37 ` Colin Ngam
2004-10-14 22:37 ` Colin Ngam
2004-10-15 0:36 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-10-15 0:36 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-10-14 14:27 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2004-10-14 14:27 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2004-10-14 14:39 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-10-14 14:39 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-10-15 7:19 ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2004-10-15 7:19 ` Richard Henderson
2004-10-15 10:34 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2004-10-15 10:34 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
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