Re: [PATCH 0/10] DMA-API debugging facility

[Ingo Molnar]

* David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 17:57 +0100, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > Yes, in principle we could move most of it to generic code. There is
> > nothing architecture specific in it.
> > Anybody who prefers this to be arch/x86 before moving it to lib/?
> 
> I think it's better to start off with a generic version, and test it 
> on more than one architecture before feeding it upstream. That way, 
> you know you aren't going to have to go back to the drawing board 
> with it.

Joerg, i'd suggest to make the generic conceptual bits generic, and 
add an HAVE_DMA_DEBUG_SUPPORT Kconfig bool flag to every architecture 
that enables it. It needs active changes to every architecture that 
supports this facility.

	Ingo
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