Tim Waugh (tim@cyberelk.demon.co.uk)
Tue, 11 May 1999 23:50:55 +0100 (GMT)
On Tue, 11 May 1999, Philip Blundell wrote:
> I think I'd prefer it backwards - the low-level driver provides a flag
> that says its buffers need to be DMA-able (or even just a set of GFP
> flags that you can OR into the argument to kmalloc). A high level
> driver has no sensible way to decide on its own whether to allocate
> buffers that are suitable for DMA or not.
Okay. By what mechanism? Changing attach(), perhaps?
void (*attach) (struct parport *port, int gfp)
Tim.
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