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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mips: Add dma_mmap_coherent()
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:38:58 +0100
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Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>,
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To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 07:42:06AM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:

> Right now it has to be a compile-time option because
> - dma_mmap_coherent() isn't implemented in every architecture (thus
>   fails to build), and 
> - pages allocated via dma_mmap_coherent() aren't always suitable for
>   SG-mapping.

I suggest you take this issue to linux-arch or linux-kernel.  There will
be some more people who will have input on this.

  Ralf