From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: alan@clueserver.org
Cc: john.weber@linuxhq.com (John Weber), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.4 sound module problem
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 09:21:49 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E16avbp-0004ib-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200202130752.g1D7qDL22868@clueserver.org> from "Alan" at Feb 12, 2002 09:18:17 PM
> > This is correct. It has been a policy to use pci_alloc_consistent
> > instead of kmalloc/getfreepages and virt_to_bus, 2.5 is enforcing it now.
>
> By breaking sound (in dmabuf and sound modules), cardbus (lots of places),
> and who knows what else.
It needed breaking. In order to get the drivers portable they need to be
using the DMA API. It shouldn't take too long for the common drivers to
get converted. For much of the sound layer it doesnt matter since the
ALSA code will replace a lot of the older sound stuff.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-13 9:08 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <fa.fo94urv.167g1q5@ifi.uio.no>
2002-02-13 5:03 ` John Weber
2002-02-13 5:18 ` Alan
2002-02-13 9:21 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-02-13 7:46 ` Miles Lane
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2002-02-13 17:21 ` Pete Zaitcev
2002-02-13 3:51 Albert Cranford
2002-02-13 3:10 ` Alan
2002-02-13 4:22 ` David S. Miller
2002-02-13 9:26 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-13 9:36 ` David S. Miller
2002-02-12 18:52 ` Gérard Roudier
2002-02-13 10:24 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-13 18:59 ` Alan
2002-02-13 20:26 ` Linus Torvalds
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2002-02-13 2:22 Alan
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