From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 20:15:01 +0000 Subject: [Linux-ia64] Re: 64 Bits DMA Addresses for Alloc Consistent Interfaces. Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org From: Colin Ngam Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 10:05:28 -0500 I actually like the flag as a parameter because it allows platform specific extensions to pass in platform specific capabilities that can be ignored by platform that does not support these capabilities. I hate this concept. I can't think of any attribute that all platforms can't take advantage of in some way and we'd actually want drivers to use. Here be the way to private platform-specific interfaces, which is totally against the reason we have these interfaces in the first place.