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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: PCI DAC DMA APIs
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:23:54 +0100
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On Thursday 15 March 2007 13:38, Jan Beulich wrote:
> While the kernel headers provide for this, there don't appear to be any
> in-tree users (which seems contrary to general Linux policies). Would there
> be objections to remove all of these?

Would be fine for me.

I think the original idea was to optimize for some SPARC systems, but they
were never really used for that.

x86 never needed them.

-Andi