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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/16] gdth: split out eisa probing
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 18:27:37 +0100
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On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 07:20:38PM +0200, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> Same thing as in ISA patch: this is not PCI and we should not hide what we're 
> doing so dma_alloc_consistent(NULL, ...) is better IMHO.

passing NULL is the documented way to deal with ISA/EISA devices with
the old pci dma api.  Any change to these APIs should be a different
patch, and there's about 100 more important things in gdth right now.