[PATCH 0/3] powerpc: dma code cleanup

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Oct 8 17:30:35 EST 2008


On Oct 7, 2008, at 4:03 PM, Remi Machet wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Following is the whole DMA code cleanup on top of the work
> already done by Becky Bruce. It includes removing __dma_sync
> and __dma_sync_page that got replaced by dma_mapping_ops->sync,
> getting rid of the old dma-noncoherent code which is now another
> type of dma_mapping_ops and cleaning up the dma non-coherent
> code by removing the virtual address pool it was using.
>
> This code was tested on a 32bits PowerPC C2K board (noncoherent
> cache) and I verified it builds on pmac32 (coherent cache, 32bits)
> and pseries (64bits).
>
> If anyone would be willing to test this code on other platforms
> (mainly ones with non-coherent DMA architectures), I would
> greatly appreciate!

Your patch commit subject should be more descriptive for each patch.   
Have the same "subject" is not acceptable.

- k



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