linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ttusb-budget: make it depend on PCI

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Date:	Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:17:40 -0500
From:	"Mike Frysinger" <vapier.adi@...il.com>
To:	"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	"Mike Frysinger" <vapier@...too.org>,
	v4l-dvb-maintainer@...uxtv.org, linux-dvb@...uxtv.org,
	"Holger Waechtler" <holger@...vergence.de>,
	"Mauro Carvalho Chehab" <mchehab@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ttusb-budget: make it depend on PCI

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 07:35, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 November 2008, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> Since dvb-ttusb-budget.c relies on pci_alloc_consistent and
>> pci_free_consistent, make it depend on PCI in Kconfig.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>
>
> Shouldn't you just convert it (trivially) to dma_alloc_coherent and
> dma_alloc_coherent?

i dont have any DVB hardware let alone this device, so there's no way
for me to test things

if the maintainer wishes to go that route, i imagine it'd make other
people happy
-mike
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