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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:16:25 +0200
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH v2] ext2: Cache line aligned partial sector
	bounce buffer
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Dear Mike Frysinger,

In message <201108231447.39934.vapier@gentoo.org> you wrote:
>
> then people would simply do:
> 	DMA_DECLARE_BUFFER(char, sec_buf, SECTOR_SIZE);
>
> but i'm not sure this is better than the proposed:
> 	char *sec_buf = dma_buffer_alloca(SECTOR_SIZE);
>
> i'd have to look at the code gcc generates to see if it is simply the same ... 
> in which case i'd stick with the latter as it's more natural to people.

Even if the code is different the former is so ugly that chances for
it to go into mainline are _really_ small.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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