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From: Kartik Babu <kbabu@automatika.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: dma_alloc_coherent
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 14:07:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4432B5D8.5050003@automatika.com> (raw)

  I'm trying to replace consistent_alloc in a driver that was written 
for the 2.4 kernel with dma_alloc_coherent. My question is that I do not 
use a struct device * pointer at all. Browsing through the source for 
the 2.6.12
on ARM XScale PXA255, I see that this argument may be NULL.

 Still, I'd like to know if passing NULL has any side effects. If so, 
what are they?

 I do however have a cdev structure taht I use for device registration, 
but I do not see how that would help.

Thanks
Kartik

             reply	other threads:[~2006-04-04 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-04 18:07 Kartik Babu [this message]
     [not found] <5XY8B-82x-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-04-04 23:45 ` dma_alloc_coherent Robert Hancock
2006-04-05 14:12   ` dma_alloc_coherent Kartik Babu

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