From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: Dan Malek <dan@embeddededge.com>
Cc: Armin <akuster@pacbell.net>, Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>,
Armin Kuster <akuster@mvista.com>,
linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: Another OCP enet patch
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 13:48:54 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020529034854.GC16537@zax> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CF3612B.8020102@embeddededge.com>
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 06:51:23AM -0400, Dan Malek wrote:
>
> David Gibson wrote:
>
> >... In some ways, since we're PPC specific anyway, I think it would
> >make as much sense as anything just to directly call
> >dcache_flush_range() and so forth, rather than consistent_sync() or
> >dma_cache_*().
>
> Yes, that's true. These consistent_* functions were added when we
> started using non-PCI drivers that are common across multiple platforms.
> It seems none of the platforms had common names for data cache management
> functions, so people started using the consistent_sync() in it's place.
> It also made sense because they were using the other consistent_* functions
> as well. No one probably noticed, but at the same time we also changed
> the cache management function names to be similar to other architectures
> as well.
Well, actually, dma_cache_wback() and friends still appear to be more
widely used than consistent_sync(). AFAICT only PPC and ARM use
consistent_sync().
--
David Gibson | For every complex problem there is a
david@gibson.dropbear.id.au | solution which is simple, neat and
| wrong. -- H.L. Mencken
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-29 3:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-27 4:03 Another OCP enet patch David Gibson
2002-05-27 6:14 ` Armin Kuster
2002-05-27 16:23 ` Tom Rini
2002-05-28 0:57 ` David Gibson
2002-05-28 1:25 ` Tom Rini
2002-05-28 6:36 ` David Gibson
2002-05-28 15:08 ` Tom Rini
2002-05-28 7:02 ` Armin
2002-05-28 6:50 ` David Gibson
2002-05-28 10:51 ` Dan Malek
2002-05-29 3:48 ` David Gibson [this message]
2002-05-29 14:51 ` Dan Malek
2002-05-28 10:39 ` Dan Malek
2002-05-29 4:16 ` David Gibson
2002-05-29 15:02 ` Dan Malek
2002-05-29 16:01 ` Armin Kuster
2002-05-30 3:10 ` David Gibson
2002-05-30 3:09 ` David Gibson
2002-05-30 4:16 ` Dan Malek
2002-05-30 4:30 ` David Gibson
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