Re: [RFT][PATCH] generic device DMA implementation

[David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>]

  James> The attached should represent close to final form for the
  James> generic DMA API.  It includes documentation (surprise!) and
  James> and implementation in terms of the pci_ API for every arch
  James> (apart from parisc, which will be submitted later).

  James> I've folded in the feedback from the previous thread.
  James> Hopefully, this should be ready for inclusion.  If people
  James> could test it on x86 and other architectures, I'd be
  James> grateful.

  James> comments and feedback from testing welcome.

Would you mind doing a s/consistent/coherent/g?  This has been
misnamed in the PCI DMA interface all along, but I didn't think it's
worth breaking drivers because of it.  But since this is a new
interface, there is no such issue.

(Consistency says something about memory access ordering, coherency
only talks about there not being multiple values for a given memory
location.  On DMA-coherent platforms with weakly-ordered memory
systems, the returned memory really is only coherent, not consistent,
i.e., you have to use memory barriers if you want to enforce
ordering.)

Thanks,

	--david