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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Jon Mason <jdmason@us.ibm.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Muli Ben-Yehuda <MULI@il.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] move swiotlb.h header file to asm-generic
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 10:49:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200601301049.41854.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060130094434.GG23968@granada.merseine.nu>

On Monday 30 January 2006 10:44, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> This patch:
> 
> - creates asm-generic/swiotlb.h
> - makes it use 'enum dma_data_direction dir' rather than 'int dir'
> - updates x86-64 and IA64 to use the common swiotlb.h
> - fixes the resulting fall out (s/int dir/enum dma_data_direction dir/
>   all over the place).

Al Viro will likely flame you badly for that enum change. Apparently it 
causes some trouble in sparse. Frankly i don't see the point neither.
It just makes the code harder to read and creates a monstrosity of a patch 
and doesn't give you anything.

-Andi

>

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-30  9:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-30  9:44 [PATCH RESEND] move swiotlb.h header file to asm-generic Muli Ben-Yehuda
2006-01-30  9:49 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-01-30 10:01   ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2006-01-30 10:08     ` Andi Kleen

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