On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 11:45:21 +1100,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
> - Add a dev_sysdata structure to struct device whose content is arch
> specific. It will allow architectures like powerpc, arm, i386, ... who
> need different types of DMA ops for busses and other kind of auxilliary
> data for devices in general (numa node id, firmware data, etc...) to put
> them in there, without bloating all architectures. The patch adds an
> empty definition for the structure to all architectures.
I like this. If we could move the dma stuff in there, we could get rid
of it on s390 where it is just bloat we drag around...
(Maybe dev_archdata would be a better name, since the definition is
architecture specific?)
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