Re: [PATCH 1/9] [I/OAT] DMA memcpy subsystem

Hi,

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 05:20:12PM -0700, Chris Leech wrote:

> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(dma_async_memcpy_buf_to_buf);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(dma_async_memcpy_buf_to_pg);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(dma_async_memcpy_pg_to_pg);

Is there a specific reason for why you chose to export 3 different
memcpu calls? They're all just wrapped to the same internals.

It would seem to make sense to have the client do their own
page_address(page) + offset calculations and just export one function?


-Olof

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