Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:18:02 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/10] DMA-API debugging facility |
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* David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> 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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