Re: dmapool (was: Re: Linux 2.6.3-rc2)

[Russell King]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 03:32:47PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > The dmapool code makes dma_{alloc,free}_coherent() a requirement for all
> > platforms, breaking platforms that don't have it (e.g. m68k, and from a quick
> > browse sparc and sparc64 probably, too).
> >
> > May not be that nice for a release candidate in a stable series...
> 
> This patch seems to fix the problem (all offending platforms include
> <asm/generic.h> if CONFIG_PCI only):

Please don't - that breaks ARM.  Part of the whole point of dmapool is
that it provides a generic DMA pool implementation, especially for
non-PCI USB devices.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
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