On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 04:05:40PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> wrote:
> > It's an API used only in slow pathes. It's much better to enforce modularity
> > in that case.
>
> hm, spose so. Putting it into .c means that all arches except one
> implement it under include/, which is also a bit irritating sometimes, such
> as $EDITOR include/asm-*/dma-mapping.h.
>
> It's a 51%/49% decision, but I'm not sure which way.
I posted a patch for this mid-September. (Actually, I posted two.
The first one was basically identical to davej's, and Christoph
disliked it... :-)
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112657055513967&w=2
I had hoped that it would get mainlined well before the b44 patch,
but apparently it fell through the cracks. The patch still applies,
so I'll follow-up with it after this message.
John
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