From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
"linux-kernel" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Add dma_set_mask_weak() API
Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 19:11:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200805011911.41388.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080501172045.35686f43@core>
On Thursday 01 May 2008 18:20:45 Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 1 May 2008 16:40:16 +0200
> Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> wrote:
>
> > This adds a new DMA subsystem API call for "weak" setting
> > of the DMA mask
>
> weak is an odd term - and we use weak for things like weak symbols so it
> might be confusing. dma_request_mask() ?
Yeah, as a non-native english speaker I couldn't come up with a good
name for it. But request seems pretty good to me.
--
Greetings Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-01 17:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-01 14:38 [PATCH 0/3] Add API for weak DMA masks Michael Buesch
2008-05-01 9:00 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-05-01 14:40 ` [PATCH 1/3] Add dma_set_mask_weak() API Michael Buesch
2008-05-01 16:20 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-01 17:11 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2008-05-01 14:41 ` [PATCH 2/3] ssb: Add weak DMA-mask API Michael Buesch
2008-05-01 14:43 ` [PATCH 3/3] b43: Use the new " Michael Buesch
2008-05-01 15:36 ` [PATCH 0/3] Add API for weak DMA masks Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-01 15:42 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-01 15:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-01 15:47 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-01 15:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-01 16:07 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-01 16:30 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-05-01 17:16 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-01 17:22 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-05-01 17:25 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-01 17:27 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-05-01 17:33 ` Michael Buesch
2008-05-01 16:29 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-01 21:39 ` David Miller
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