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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	mb@bu3sch.de, stefano.brivio@polimi.it,
	Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] ssb: open-code dma_alloc_coherent
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:24:46 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100214.222446.138687519.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100215142111R.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>

From: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:21:58 +0900

> From: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
> Subject: [PATCH -mm] ssb: open-code dma_alloc_coherent
> 
> This removes ssb_dma_alloc_consistent, a wrapper for
> dma_alloc_coherent and pci_alloc_consistent. dma_alloc_coherent
> internally calls pci_alloc_consistent against pci devices so we always
> use dma_alloc_coherent.
> 
> I prefer to use the DMA API directly instead of creating the ssb_dma_
> API. We have been removing any bus specific DMA APIs.
> 
> One disadvantage of this approach that we lost the debugging ability
> of checking the buggy usage of the DMA API against non DMA-capable ssb
> buses. But I guess that the ssb drivers are mature enough and can cope
> with such change?
> 
> I plan to replace all the ssb_dma API if this approach is fine.
> 
> Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>

I'm fine with this:

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-15  6:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-15  5:21 [PATCH -mm] ssb: open-code dma_alloc_coherent FUJITA Tomonori
2010-02-15  6:24 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-02-15  6:49 ` Larry Finger
2010-02-15  7:25   ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-02-15 10:09     ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-02-16  0:09     ` Larry Finger
2010-02-16  2:05       ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-02-16 19:12         ` Larry Finger
2010-02-15 11:03 ` Michael Buesch
2010-02-15 11:18   ` FUJITA Tomonori
2010-02-15 11:21     ` Michael Buesch

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