Re: [PATCH 38 of 39] IB/ipath - More changes to support InfiniPathon PowerPC 970 systems

From: Bryan O'Sullivan
Date: Thu Jun 29 2006 - 18:00:47 EST


On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 14:53 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:41:29 -0700
>
> > ipath_core-$(CONFIG_X86_64) += ipath_wc_x86_64.o
> > +ipath_core-$(CONFIG_PPC64) += ipath_wc_ppc64.o
>
> Again, don't put these kinds of cpu specific functions
> into the infiniband driver. They are potentially globally
> useful, not something only Infiniband might want to do.

The support for write combining in the kernel is not in a state where
that makes any sense at the moment. Also, this is a single-statement
function.

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