On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 12:27:37AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 01:20:56 -0600 > Otto Solares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > everything else includes the generic one (pci dependant). > > With this model what happens if a box had more than one > > bus type (if technically possible)? > > If the architecture wants to support such situations, > then the implementation needs to vector off to different > operations based upon the actual bus type. > > Even though technically devices having SBUS and PCI variants could do > this, none do currently, and also I do not use the generic device > model in the SBUS layer, therefore I'm not going to add such multi-bus > support to what Sparc uses for dma-mapping.h
ok, i understand now. Theorically could be nice the new API, i better stick with the current per-bus-drivers. > If someone is bored and willing to do all of the generic device and > ->dma_ops work for Sparc and SBUS, feel free to send me some patches. > Otherwise, it won't get done :-) :) fine with me. -solca
