Re: [PATCH -mm] dma-mapping.h: add the dma_unmap state API

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Feb 12 2010 - 23:44:27 EST


On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:49:09 +0900 FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:51:57 -0800
> Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > -#ifdef CONFIG_NEED_DMA_MAP_STATE
> > > -#define DECLARE_PCI_UNMAP_ADDR(ADDR_NAME) dma_addr_t ADDR_NAME;
> > > -#define DECLARE_PCI_UNMAP_LEN(LEN_NAME) __u32 LEN_NAME;
> >
> > But we already screwed up the semicolon thing. If you grep the tree you'll
> > see that about half of the users of this macro added their own semicolon:
>
> Yeah, I know. PCI-DMA-mapping.txt says:
>
> NOTE: DO NOT put a semicolon at the end of the DECLARE_*() macro.
>
>
> But there are some other DECLARE_ macros that don't have the
> semicolons so users could be easily confused.

yup. Users already got confused.

> #define DEFINE_DMA_MAP_ADDR(ADDR_NAME) dma_addr_t ADDR_NAME
>
> looks better?

yes. People expect to have to put the semicolon in there, so they do.

>
> > ./drivers/net/cxgb3/sge.c: DECLARE_PCI_UNMAP_ADDR(addr);
> > ./drivers/net/skge.h: DECLARE_PCI_UNMAP_ADDR(mapaddr);
> > ./drivers/net/qla3xxx.h: DECLARE_PCI_UNMAP_ADDR(mapaddr);
> > ./drivers/net/qla3xxx.h: DECLARE_PCI_UNMAP_ADDR(mapaddr);
> > ./drivers/net/tg3.h: DECLARE_PCI_UNMAP_ADDR(mapping)
> >
> >
> > Perhaps someone will clean all that up sometime.
>
> I plan to replace these PCI API with the new generic API so I can take
> care of them together.

cool.
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