Re: [PATCH 2/16] gdth: split out eisa probing

Christoph Hellwig
2007-10-03T17:28:08Z

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.