On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 08:40:11PM +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > Architectures implement dma_is_consistent() in different ways (some > misinterpret the definition of API in DMA-API.txt). So it hasn't been > so useful for drivers. We have only one user of the API in > tree. Unlikely out-of-tree drivers use the API. > > Even if we fix dma_is_consistent() in some architectures, it doesn't > look useful at all. It was invented long ago for some old systems that > can't allocate coherent memory at all. It's better to export only APIs > that are definitely necessary for drivers. > > Let's remove this API. > > Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
