On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Russell King wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 02:46:40PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > Since 2.5.31, the compilation of kernel/dma.c is conditional on
> > CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA. However, drivers/scsi/hosts.c unconditionally calls
> > free_dma(), which breaks machines with SCSI that don't have ISA.
>
> 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?
> However, since this function isn't used on ARM, it doesn't affect me,
> and so I don't have any problem with this patch. 8)
Hehe ;-)
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.orgIn personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
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