Re: [PATCH] SCSI on non-ISA systems

Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Fri, 8 Nov 2002 14:42:34 +0000

On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 03:22:55PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Russell King wrote:
> > This isn't actually the original purpose of CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA (it
> > was to allow an architecture to provide ISA-like DMA without having to
> > use the ISA DMA request/free functions - eg, they need to claim interrupts
> > on request_dma() and free them on free_dma()).
>
> Then what's the correct(TM) fix? Unconditionally #define
> CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA, so it behaves like before?

Probably the correct answer is to get everyone to use an explicit release
function and just kill scsi_host_generic_release() entirely.

However, I'm sure other people will have differing views on that.

-- 
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html


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