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Message-ID: <20061109170435.07d2e0c4@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 17:04:35 +0100 From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com> To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@....ibm.com> Cc: Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add dev_sysdata and use it for ACPI On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 11:45:21 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@....ibm.com> wrote: > - Add a dev_sysdata structure to struct device whose content is arch > specific. It will allow architectures like powerpc, arm, i386, ... who > need different types of DMA ops for busses and other kind of auxilliary > data for devices in general (numa node id, firmware data, etc...) to put > them in there, without bloating all architectures. The patch adds an > empty definition for the structure to all architectures. I like this. If we could move the dma stuff in there, we could get rid of it on s390 where it is just bloat we drag around... (Maybe dev_archdata would be a better name, since the definition is architecture specific?) -- Cornelia Huck Linux for zSeries Developer Tel.: +49-7031-16-4837, Mail: cornelia.huck@...ibm.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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