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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Nitin P Mahajan <Nitin@soc-soft.com>
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Subject: Re: pci_alloc_consitent
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On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 08:27:52PM +0530, Nitin P Mahajan wrote:

> 	Could any one please tell me what pci_alloc_consistent does?

This documented in Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt.

  Ralf