Re: 2.5.8 compile bugs

Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Mon, 15 Apr 2002 14:09:27 +0200


On Mon, Apr 15 2002, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> > > That's not enough, some archs don't define pci_alloc_consistent/
> > > pci_free_consistent, because they have neither PCI nor ISA.
> >
> > Please, then those archs need to provide similar functionality. This is
> > the established api, unless you want to change the documentation and xxx
> > number of drivers?
>
> These functions are only specified for PCI/ISA and there was no need so

In my mind these are generic functions, it's a shame that they come with
a pci_ prefix and take a pci dev as first argument (the NULL for isa
seems like a kludge).

> far to implement them. It's no problem to provide the functionality, but I
> have to know with what API.

Should be very easy for you to provide similar functionality for m68k,
just take a look at the x86 functions.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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