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From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] ucc_geth: Change private immrbar_virt_to_phys to generic iopa
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 10:43:53 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45CA01C9.3020309@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001EB06E-FC1D-4F0A-A910-8E08EE0B8CE2@kernel.crashing.org>

Kumar Gala wrote:
> 
> On Feb 6, 2007, at 5:31 AM, Li Yang wrote:
> 
>> Get rid of private immrbar_virt_to_phys() routine and
>> use generic iopa().
> 
> Nack. iopa() isn't that generic, shouldn't we really be using the dma 
> mapping API here?

I'm having a hard time understanding what's wrong with iopa().  Is it because 
it's a 32-bit only function?  The memory has already been mapped with ioremap(), 
so why would we want to map it again?

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-02-07 16:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-06 11:31 [PATCH 1/4] ucc_geth: Change private immrbar_virt_to_phys to generic iopa Li Yang
2007-02-06 14:26 ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-07  9:34   ` Li Yang-r58472
2007-02-07 16:36     ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-07 16:43   ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2007-02-07 16:49     ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-07 17:03       ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-08  5:52         ` Li Yang-r58472
2007-02-08  5:57           ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-08  6:48             ` Li Yang-r58472
2007-02-08  6:53               ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-08  7:06                 ` Li Yang-r58472
2007-02-08  7:16                   ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-08  7:36                     ` Li Yang-r58472
2007-02-08  7:41                       ` Kumar Gala
2007-02-08 13:35                 ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-09 17:22                   ` Dan Malek
2007-02-09 17:26                     ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-08 13:27           ` Timur Tabi
2007-02-07  0:19 ` Jeff Garzik

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