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From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Add dma_set_mask_weak() API
Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 19:11:40 +0200
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On Thursday 01 May 2008 18:20:45 Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 1 May 2008 16:40:16 +0200
> Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> wrote:
> 
> > This adds a new DMA subsystem API call for "weak" setting
> > of the DMA mask
> 
> weak is an odd term - and we use weak for things like weak symbols so it
> might be confusing. dma_request_mask() ?

Yeah, as a non-native english speaker I couldn't come up with a good
name for it. But request seems pretty good to me.


-- 
Greetings Michael.