linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] USB: rename usb_buffer_alloc() and usb_buffer

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1004131525500.1551-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Date:	Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:27:36 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Daniel Mack <daniel@...aq.de>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Pedro Ribeiro <pedrib@...il.com>, <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	<linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>, <alsa-devel@...a-project.org>,
	Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@...il.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: rename usb_buffer_alloc() and usb_buffer_free()

On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Daniel Mack wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 01:17:25PM +0200, Daniel Mack wrote:
> > For more clearance what the functions actually do,
> > 
> >   usb_buffer_alloc() is renamed to usb_alloc_coherent()
> >   usb_buffer_free()  is renamed to usb_free_coherent()
> > 
> > They should only be used in code which really needs DMA coherency.
> > 
> > All call sites have been changed accordingly, except for staging
> > drivers.
> 
> Is this ok? As it's quite big, I think it should be merged soon if there
> are no objections.

I have no objection.  All it does is rename a couple of functions.  
There's no reason for this to go into 2.6.34; it can wait for the next 
merge window.

Alan Stern

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