Re: [PATCH] fix ALSA compilation on Sparc32

[Takashi Iwai]

At Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:09:39 +0100,
Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:26:04 +0200
> Markus Dahms <mad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > The dma_alloc_coherent and dma_free_coherent function seem to be not
> > available on sparc(32) architecture. It is not used by SBus sound
> > drivers, so it's disabled via #ifndef for CONFIG_SPARC32.
> 
> It would probably look a lot cleaner if you either provided dummy
> dma_alloc_coherent/free coherent inlines for SPARC32, fixed it (if
> sparc32 can do coherent DMA) or if you must ifdef it provide dummy
> functions in the memalloc code so its a single ifdef

It's been indeed inline on 2.6.22 or ealier in
include/asm-generic/dma-mapping.h, but it's changed to extern without
defining functions.

I don't think it's a good idea to have function declarations even
though we surely know that there are no real function definitions...


Takashi
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