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Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:31:27 +0200
From: "Emilio G. Cota" <cota@braap.org>
To: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@gefanuc.com>
Cc: Greg K-H <gregkh@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, Sebastien Dugue <sebastien.dugue@bull.net>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/5] Staging: VME Framework for the Linux Kernel
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Emilio G. Cota wrote:
> I've had a closer look; it seems to me that most of it is unnecessary;
> there's no show those lists to a driver. I'd just provide a single
> 'do_dma(attributes)' call that sleeps until it's done (or similar).

s/there's no show/there's no point in showing/

Basically the driver simply shouldn't care about these DMA
lists. It just wants to get the work done, no matter how.

E.