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From: Emmanuel Michon <emmanuel_michon@realmagic.fr>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: adam@yggdrasil.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does pci_alloc_consisent really need to zero memory?
Date: 30 May 2002 13:05:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7w4rgpc2vd.fsf@avalon.france.sdesigns.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200205300911.CAA01655@adam.yggdrasil.com> <20020530.024959.65186398.davem@redhat.com>

"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> writes:

> I'd rather see a patch to DMA-mapping.txt that specifies the memory
> returned is zeroed out, as this is what every implementation appears
> to do.

What was the idea when writing the code that zeroes memory? It seems
so useless.

Sincerely yours,

-- 
Emmanuel Michon
Chef de projet
REALmagic France SAS
Mobile: 0614372733 GPGkeyID: D2997E42  

  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-30 11:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-30  9:11 Does pci_alloc_consisent really need to zero memory? Adam J. Richter
2002-05-30  9:49 ` David S. Miller
2002-05-30 11:05   ` Emmanuel Michon [this message]
2002-05-30 10:54     ` David S. Miller
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-05-30 11:41 Adam J. Richter
2002-05-30 11:30 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-03 16:45 ` Pavel Machek

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