On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 01:27:20PM +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote: > Introduce new generic alloc and free methods with attributes argument. > > Existing alloc_coherent and free_coherent can be implemented on top of the > new calls with NULL attributes argument. Later also dma_alloc_non_coherent > can be implemented using DMA_ATTR_NONCOHERENT attribute as well as > dma_alloc_writecombine with separate DMA_ATTR_WRITECOMBINE attribute. > > This way the drivers will get more generic, platform independent way of > allocating dma buffers with specific parameters. > > Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@xxxxxxxxxxx> Looks sensible to me. Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>