8260 CPM DP ram free function

[Tom Rini]

On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 02:34:08PM -0500, Rune Torgersen wrote:

>
> > First, when this has come up in the past, the first question
> > is why is this useful, given that with the hardware and
> > peripherals in question, loadable drivers aren't really
> > useful (and don't shoot the messenger please).
>
> Right now I mainly use it to debug a driver, which would run out of host
> ram when I reloaded it
>
> > Second, you removed the EXPORT_SYMBOL for the old alloc, but
> > I didn't see quickly how a module would make use of the new
> > infrastructure since there weren't any new EXPORT_SYMBOLs.
>
> This is because I did my patch against 2.6.5, and all the EXPORT sympols
> are in arch/ppc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c
> and not in commprocs.c
>
> In ppc_ksyms.c I have:
> extern uint m8260_cpm_dpalloc(uint size, uint align);
> extern uint m8260_cpm_hostalloc(uint size, uint align);
> extern uint m8260_cpm_hostfree(uint ptr);
> extern uint m8260_cpm_dpfree(uint ptr);
>
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(m8260_cpm_dpalloc);
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(m8260_cpm_hostalloc);
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(m8260_cpm_dpfree);
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(m8260_cpm_hostfree);

Er?  Aren't dpfree/hostfree new functions?  I didn't see them added as
exports in your patch, and regardless they belong in comproc.c now.

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