[PATCH 7/8] common: dma-mapping: change alloc/free_coherent method to more generic alloc/free_attrs

Marek Szyprowski m.szyprowski at samsung.com
Mon Jun 27 10:41:48 EDT 2011


Hello,

On Friday, June 24, 2011 5:54 PM Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> On Monday 20 June 2011, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> > mmap method is introduced to let the drivers create a user space mapping
> > for a DMA buffer in generic, architecture independent way.
> 
> One more thing: please split out the mmap change into a separate patch.

Ok, no problem.

> I sense that there might be some objections to that, and it's better
> to let people know about it early on than having them complain
> later when that has already been merged.

Ok, I will also prepare much more detailed description for mmap patch.

Best regards
-- 
Marek Szyprowski
Samsung Poland R&D Center






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