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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:24:24 +0000
Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.13] ia64: re-implement dma_get_cache_alignment to avoid EXPORT_SYMBOL
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To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, tony.luck@intel.com

On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 08:14:29PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> The current ia64 implementation of dma_get_cache_alignment does not
> work for modules because it relies on a symbol which is not exported.
> Direct access to a global is a little ugly anyway, so this patch
> re-implements dma_get_cache_alignment in a manner similar to what is
> currently used for x86_64.

looks good to me.