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Date:	Thu, 31 May 2007 16:13:38 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	SCSI development list <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...elEye.com>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc3-mm1

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 08:35:13AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Cornelia Huck wrote:
> >On Thu, 31 May 2007 06:15:57 -0600,
> >Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx> wrote:
> >
> >>On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 02:09:22PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> >>>I split those functions out into a new file. Builds on s390 and i386.
> >>Why not just put #ifdef CONFIG_HAS_DMA / #endif around the pair of
> >>functions?  I don't see the need to add a new Kconfig symbol and a new
> >>file for this.
> >
> >I prefer a new file over #ifdefs in c files. (New dma-dependent stuff
> >would also have a place where it could go to.)
> >
> >But I'll do whatever ends up as consensus :)
> 
> 50 lines isn't much need for a new file.

The scsi core shouldn't know anything about dma mappings, so a separate
file is a good idea just to keep the separation clean.
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