[Linux-ia64] Re: 64 Bits DMA Addresses for Alloc Consistent Interfaces.

David S. Miller
2003-05-15T20:15:01Z

From: Colin Ngam <cngam@sgi.com>
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.