Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: SLAB vs. pci_alloc_xxx in usb-uhci patch [RFC: API]

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Mar 09 2001 - 13:35:48 EST


> Drivers can keep track of this kind of information themselves,
> and that is what I tell every driver author to do who complains
> of a lack of a "bus_to_virt()" type thing, it's just lazy
> programming.

I'd agree. There are _good_ reasons for having reverse mappings especially on
certain architectures, but thats for stuff like cache management. Its stuff
the drivers have no business poking their noses directly into

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