From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PCI DAC DMA APIs
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:23:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200703151423.54266.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45F94C45.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
On Thursday 15 March 2007 13:38, Jan Beulich wrote:
> While the kernel headers provide for this, there don't appear to be any
> in-tree users (which seems contrary to general Linux policies). Would there
> be objections to remove all of these?
Would be fine for me.
I think the original idea was to optimize for some SPARC systems, but they
were never really used for that.
x86 never needed them.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-15 13:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-15 12:38 PCI DAC DMA APIs Jan Beulich
2007-03-15 13:23 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-03-15 18:37 ` Jesse Barnes
2007-03-15 19:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-03-16 1:18 ` David Miller
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