On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 06:32:22PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The following patchset allows additional "attributes" to be > passed to dma_map_*/dma_unmap_* implementations. (The reason > why this is useful/necessary has been mentioned several times, > most recently here: > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119258541412724&w=2.) > > This is incomplete in that only ia64 and x86_64 are supported - > the purpose is mainly to give us something specific to discuss. > > The approach here is to change the dma_map_* interface so > that the last argument is an u32 which encodes the direction > of the dma and, optionally, other attributes. Changing the > interface is a bit intrusive, but callers of dma_map_* don't > need to be modified.
Onething I've missed with these patches is drivers actually using it. What driver actually needs it and why don't you send patches for them? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
