Re: 2.5.8 compile bugs

Roman Zippel (zippel@linux-m68k.org)
Mon, 15 Apr 2002 19:30:33 +0200


Hi,

Jens Axboe wrote:

> > That's not enough, some archs don't define pci_alloc_consistent/
> > pci_free_consistent, because they have neither PCI nor ISA.
>
> Please, then those archs need to provide similar functionality. This is
> the established api, unless you want to change the documentation and xxx
> number of drivers?

Anyway, could this part be moved to ide-dma.c or disabled with
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI, as it only seems to be used in ide-dma.c. Why
allocating this memory, when it's never used in PIO mode?

bye, Roman
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