From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Rusty Trivial Russell <trivial@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCSI on non-ISA systems
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 14:42:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021108144234.A24114@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0211081522050.23267-100000@vervain.sonytel.be>; from geert@linux-m68k.org on Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 03:22:55PM +0100
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 03:22:55PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Russell King wrote:
> > This isn't actually the original purpose of CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA (it
> > was to allow an architecture to provide ISA-like DMA without having to
> > use the ISA DMA request/free functions - eg, they need to claim interrupts
> > on request_dma() and free them on free_dma()).
>
> Then what's the correct(TM) fix? Unconditionally #define
> CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA, so it behaves like before?
Probably the correct answer is to get everyone to use an explicit release
function and just kill scsi_host_generic_release() entirely.
However, I'm sure other people will have differing views on that.
--
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-08 14:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-08 13:46 Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-11-08 13:57 ` Russell King
2002-11-08 14:22 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-11-08 14:42 ` Russell King [this message]
2002-11-08 16:20 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-09 0:50 ` Mike Anderson
2002-11-09 0:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-11-09 13:13 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-09 14:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
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