Re: 2.5.8 compile bugs

Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Mon, 15 Apr 2002 19:32:31 +0200


On Mon, Apr 15 2002, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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?
>
> Anyway, could this part be moved to ide-dma.c or disabled with
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI, as it only seems to be used in ide-dma.c. Why
> allocating this memory, when it's never used in PIO mode?

Sure, we'll get it shoe horned in there, no need to change the rules
right now.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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