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From: Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
To: Michael Buesch <fsdeveloper@yahoo.de>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.4.21] meye driver update
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 23:29:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030615212935.GA1582@deep-space-9.dsnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200306151906.57099.fsdeveloper@yahoo.de>

On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 07:06:56PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:

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> On Sunday 15 June 2003 18:31, Stelian Pop wrote:
> > Hi,
> 
> Hi Stelian,
> 
> > +void dma_free_coherent(struct pci_dev *dev, size_t size,
>                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > +                         void *vaddr, dma_addr_t dma_handle)
>                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Why do you define these unused parameters?

Because it's backported from 2.5, and I took it as it, without 
editing.

> > +{
> > +        free_pages((unsigned long)vaddr, get_order(size));
> > +}
> 
> And why are they defined in 2.5, too, althought unused.
> Is there some reason?

Unused of ix86 because bus addresses are the same as virtual addresses.
This is not however the case on other architetures, see 
Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt.

Stelian.
-- 
Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>

  reply	other threads:[~2003-06-15 21:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-15 16:31 [PATCH 2.4.21] meye driver update Stelian Pop
2003-06-15 17:06 ` Michael Buesch
2003-06-15 21:29   ` Stelian Pop [this message]
2003-06-16  6:05     ` Stelian Pop
2003-06-16 14:54     ` Michael Buesch
2003-06-16 15:36       ` Stelian Pop

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