From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "John W. Linville" Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 21:54:50 +0000 Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.14-rc2 0/5] swiotlb maintenance and x86_64 dma_sync_single_range_for_{cpu,device} Message-Id: <20050926215447.GB5640@tuxdriver.com> List-Id: References: <09262005170119.15628@bilbo.tuxdriver.com> <20050926213326.GF1459@parisc-linux.org> In-Reply-To: <20050926213326.GF1459@parisc-linux.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, discuss@x86-64.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, ak@suse.de, tony.luck@intel.com, Asit.K.Mallick@intel.com, gregkh@suse.de On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 03:33:26PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 05:01:19PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > > In this round, the new location for swiotlb is driver/pci/swiotlb.c. > > This is the result of discussions on lkml pointing-out that swiotlb is > > closely related to PCI. > > Uh? It implements DMA services, which aren't limited to PCI at all. > Despite the file including and (which should > probably both be removed), there's not a single PCI-related function in > this file. You originally moved it to lib/ which made much more sense. Well, now, this is a quandry isn't it... Actually, I'm inclined to agree with you. Tony, et al., care to restate your reasoning for moving it under drivers/pci? John -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com