On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 03:22:55PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Russell King wrote:
> > This isn't actually the original purpose of CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA (it
> > was to allow an architecture to provide ISA-like DMA without having to
> > use the ISA DMA request/free functions - eg, they need to claim interrupts
> > on request_dma() and free them on free_dma()).
>
> Then what's the correct(TM) fix? Unconditionally #define
> CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA, so it behaves like before?
Probably the correct answer is to get everyone to use an explicit release
function and just kill scsi_host_generic_release() entirely.
However, I'm sure other people will have differing views on that.
--
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
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