Re: [PATCH 0/4] allow drivers to flush in-flight DMA v2

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On Tuesday, October 2, 2007 6:04 pm [email protected] wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 03:43:39PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > ....
> > My only beef with this patch set is that it seems
> > a bit much to create a totally new function name every
> > time we want to set some kind of new attribute on some
> > DMA object.  Why not add a "dma_set_flags()" or similar
> > that can be used later on to set other kinds of aspects
> > we'd like to change?
> >
> > You can make the arguments "u32 flags" and "int dir".
> > Actually you should probably use the dma direction
> > enumaration instead of 'int'.
>
> OK, this will be in the next version along with the
> coding style changes you mentioned.

I can't find it now, but IIRC Dave, you vehemently opposed adding a 
flags argument awhile back (~2000), so SGI has been reluctant to push 
it again. :)

Glad you're finally coming around, I think a flags argument makes sense, 
as long as we're careful about adding new ones.

Jesse
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