From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
davej@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] export ia64_max_cacheline_size
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 23:35:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051105043527.GC21567@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051104160540.486051ed.akpm@osdl.org>
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 04:05:40PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> > It's an API used only in slow pathes. It's much better to enforce modularity
> > in that case.
>
> hm, spose so. Putting it into .c means that all arches except one
> implement it under include/, which is also a bit irritating sometimes, such
> as $EDITOR include/asm-*/dma-mapping.h.
>
> It's a 51%/49% decision, but I'm not sure which way.
I posted a patch for this mid-September. (Actually, I posted two.
The first one was basically identical to davej's, and Christoph
disliked it... :-)
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112657055513967&w=2
I had hoped that it would get mainlined well before the b44 patch,
but apparently it fell through the cracks. The patch still applies,
so I'll follow-up with it after this message.
John
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John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-05 4:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-04 22:07 [PATCH] export ia64_max_cacheline_size Dave Jones
2005-11-04 22:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-11-04 22:55 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-04 23:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-11-05 0:05 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-05 4:35 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2005-11-05 4:37 ` [patch 2.6.14] ia64: re-implement dma_get_cache_alignment to avoid EXPORT_SYMBOL John W. Linville
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