Re: [BK PATCH] PCI reorg fix

[Patrick Mochel]

> As a side note, I don't think that any pci_* function should be able to
> be called by non-pci drivers.  Is it worth spending the time now in 2.5
> to make these two functions not rely on 'struct pci_dev' and fix up all
> of the drivers and architectures and documentation to reflect this?
> Possible names would be alloc_consistent() and free_consistent()?

I would suggest something like:

void * 
dev_alloc_consistent(struct device * dev, size_t size, dma_addr_t * dma_handle);

and moving dma_mask to struct device. 

To handle differences in arch-specific implementations, we could have a 
callback that the generic code calls.

Implementing the generic code is ~5 minutes work. However, it will break 
everything. OTOH, it would be the best motivation for modernizing these 
drivers...

	-pat