Re: [PATCH 1/2] Generic per-device coherent dma allocator

[Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>]

On Monday, June 30, 2008 3:58 am Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Currently x86_32, sh and cris-v32 provide per-device coherent dma
> > memory allocator. However their implementation is nearly identical.
> > Refactor out common code to be reused by them.
>
> looks good to me in principle.
>
> Andrew, Jesse: i've put this aside into the core/generic-dma-coherent
> git tree which you can check at:
>
>    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git
> core/generic-dma-coherent
>
> there's some interaction with other x86 bits so i guess it would be best
> to carry this in -tip.
>
> Do the generic bits look good to you? (find the shortlog and diff below)
> It's not yet propagated into linux-next, pending your ack/nak and
> pending some test exposure.

Yeah, looks great to me; if you have dependent changes you can push it; I 
don't think I have anything in my tree that'll cause real trouble.

Jesse