Re: Regarding consistent_alloc

On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 03:18:21PM +0200, Pantelis Antoniou wrote:

Hi

Can someone tell what is the deal with these functions?

consistent_alloc et. al. are very useful to me now that I'm
cleaning up my QMC driver. But they are exported.

Is there any reason why they are not exported for use by
modules?

They are exported in the development trees I use, linuxppc_2_4_devel
and linuxppc-2.5.

Also they appear to be tied to the PCI bus, a reduntant
dependancy IMHO.

How so?  consistent_alloc/consistent_free are independent of pci bus.
Use those.  pci_* are, by definition, pci-specific and only exported
on PCI-based systems.

Regards,
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