Re: DMA API issues

[James Bottomley]

On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 18:26, Ian Molton wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 17:08:03 -0400
> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > You _might_ convince the kernel DMA gurus that this could be done by 
> > creating a driver-specific bus, and pointing struct device to that 
> > internal bus, but that seems like an awful lot of work as opposed to the 
> > wrappers.
> 
> Its an awful lot less work than re-writing all those drivers!

Every other driver bar this one already copes correctly with on chip
memory using the ioremap methods.  That's why we're all wondering if it
isn't simpler to fix this driver.

James


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