Re: [PATCH] Introduce PCI <-> CPU address conversion [1/2]

Matthew Wilcox
2004-10-14T13:53:28Z

On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 01:53:48PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> I'd rather have this declared in every architectures asm/ header, so it's
> more explicit that it's an per-arch thing. Also make it a static inline
> so we get typechecking.

I actually don't want typechecking. Sometimes you have a device and
sometimes you have a bus. You can get everything you want (sysdata)
from either, so there's no point in doing dev->bus when all you needed
was right there.

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