Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Mar 2003 14:40:39 -0700 | From | Matt Porter <> | Subject | Re: *dma_sync_single API change to support non-coherent cpus |
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On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 11:47:23AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> > Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 19:58:25 +0000 > > DaveM, as the author of the original PCI DMA API, any comments on this > (probably ill-thoughtout) idea? > > Maybe a better idea is to kill map_single() altogether, and use > scatterlists everywhere. > > Long term this is the kind of consolidation that ought to > happen anyways. > > And then the implementation can stick whatever it wants in there.
Eliminating map_single() does solve our problem, but I take "Long term" to mean 2.7. Is the proposed solution acceptable for 2.5/2.6 or are we stuck documenting the limitation until 2.7?
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