From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 30 May 2002 07:05:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 30 May 2002 07:05:39 -0400 Received: from c2ce9fba.adsl.oleane.fr ([194.206.159.186]:33907 "EHLO avalon.france.sdesigns.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 30 May 2002 07:05:37 -0400 To: "David S. Miller" Cc: adam@yggdrasil.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Does pci_alloc_consisent really need to zero memory? In-Reply-To: <200205300911.CAA01655@adam.yggdrasil.com> <20020530.024959.65186398.davem@redhat.com> From: Emmanuel Michon Date: 30 May 2002 13:05:26 +0200 Message-ID: <7w4rgpc2vd.fsf@avalon.france.sdesigns.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "David S. Miller" writes: > I'd rather see a patch to DMA-mapping.txt that specifies the memory > returned is zeroed out, as this is what every implementation appears > to do. What was the idea when writing the code that zeroes memory? It seems so useless. Sincerely yours, -- Emmanuel Michon Chef de projet REALmagic France SAS Mobile: 0614372733 GPGkeyID: D2997E42