From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Removal of dma_cache_* functions?
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 06:42:12 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070904124212.GR14130@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070904115615.GA14986@linux-mips.org>
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 12:56:16PM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> Most architectures implement the dma_cache_wback, dma_cache_wback_inv
> and dma_cache_wback_inv functions even though there is the more modern
> and much better designed DMA API and only two MIPS-specific users (one of
> which I just fixed) do remain. So should we finally start removing it?
There's still some users in arch/, but yes, let's remove it from the
arches that don't use it internally.
--
Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-04 12:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-04 11:56 Removal of dma_cache_* functions? Ralf Baechle
2007-09-04 12:42 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2007-09-04 12:57 ` James Bottomley
2007-09-04 13:07 ` Ralf Baechle
2007-09-04 23:49 ` James Bottomley
2007-09-11 13:44 ` Jes Sorensen
2007-09-11 13:58 ` Ralf Baechle
2007-09-04 13:07 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-09-04 13:33 ` Ralf Baechle
2007-09-06 11:39 ` [PATCH] Removal of dma_cache_(wback|inv|wback_inv) functions Ralf Baechle
2007-09-06 14:55 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-09-06 15:02 ` David Miller
2007-09-06 15:02 ` Kyle McMartin
2007-09-06 21:28 ` Håvard Skinnemoen
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