From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:13:22 -0700 From: Matt Porter To: "Johnson, Stephen" Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: kmalloc vs pci_alloc_consistent Message-ID: <20030718091322.C26854@home.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from stevebj@artesyncp.com on Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 08:34:24AM -0500 Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 08:34:24AM -0500, Johnson, Stephen wrote: > > I don't know the history behind pci_alloc and wanted to throw this out there > to get some clarification. > > What's the benefit of pci_alloc over using kmalloc with flags for a > cache-safe buffer? Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt has a detailed explanation of the API. Regards, -- Matt Porter mporter@kernel.crashing.org ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/