Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 05:07:37PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> > on ia64, dma_get_cache_alignment() needs ia64_max_cacheline_size,
> > which isn't exported. This breaks modular compilation of the b44
> > network driver (and possibly others).
>
> Can we please move dma_get_cache_alignment() out of line instead?
It's a single statement! It wants to be inlined.
> Always export sane APIs instead of random internals.
The exported API is dma_get_cache_alignment(). For internal implementation
reasons we need to export an ia64 symbol to modules to support it. That
kinda sucks, but I don't think that we need to compromise kernel size and
performance because of it.
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