On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 03:33:26PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 05:01:19PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> > In this round, the new location for swiotlb is driver/pci/swiotlb.c.
> > This is the result of discussions on lkml pointing-out that swiotlb is
> > closely related to PCI.
>
> Uh? It implements DMA services, which aren't limited to PCI at all.
> Despite the file including <linux.pci.h> and <asm/pci.h> (which should
> probably both be removed), there's not a single PCI-related function in
> this file. You originally moved it to lib/ which made much more sense.
Well, now, this is a quandry isn't it... Actually, I'm inclined to
agree with you.
Tony, et al., care to restate your reasoning for moving it under
drivers/pci?
John
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