Re: DMA APIs gumble grumble

[Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>]

On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 12:54:37PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

>  - For platforms like powerpc where I can have multiple busses on
> different IOMMU's and with possibly different DMA ops, I really need to
> have a per-device data structure for use by the DMA ops (in fact, in my
> case, containing the DMA ops themselves). Right now, I defined a notion
> of "device extension" (struct device_ext) that my current implementation
> puts in device->firmware_data (don't look for it upstream, it's all
> patches queuing up for 2.6.20 and about to go into powerpc.git), but
> that I'd like to have flat in struct device instead. Would it be agreed
> that linux/device.h includes itself an asm/device.h which contains a
> definition for a struct device_ext that is within struct device ? That
> would also avoid a pointer indirection which is a good thing for DMA
> operations

I want multiple dma_ops for Calgary on x86-64, so strong thumbs up for
doing this in a generic manner. device_ext kinda sucks as a name,
though... if it's used for just dma_ops, how about device_dma_ops?

I agree with the rest of your suggestions too, FWIW.

Cheers,
Muli