From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Olof Johansson Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/19] dmaengine: reduce backend address permutations Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:46:38 -0500 Message-ID: <20060915094638.7eded22f@localhost.localdomain> References: <1158015632.4241.31.camel@dwillia2-linux.ch.intel.com> <20060911231823.4737.95500.stgit@dwillia2-linux.ch.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20060911231823.4737.95500.stgit@dwillia2-linux.ch.intel.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Dan Williams Cc: neilb@suse.de, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, christopher.leech@intel.com List-Id: linux-raid.ids Hi, On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:18:23 -0700 Dan Williams wrote: > From: Dan Williams > > Change the backend dma driver API to accept a 'union dmaengine_addr'. The > intent is to be able to support a wide range of frontend address type > permutations without needing an equal number of function type permutations > on the backend. Please do the cleanup of existing code before you apply new function. Earlier patches in this series added code that you're modifying here. If you modify the existing code first it's less churn for everyone to review. Thanks, Olof