Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: SLAB vs. pci_alloc_xxx in usb-uhci patch [RFC: API]

[Johannes Erdfelt]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2001, David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Manfred Spraul writes:
>  > Do lots of drivers need the reverse mapping? It wasn't on my todo list
>  > yet.
> 
> I am against any API which provides this.  It can be extremely
> expensive to do this on some architectures, and since the rest
> of the PCI dma API does not provide such an interface neither
> should the pool routines.

The API I hacked together for uhci.c didn't have this.

> Drivers can keep track of this kind of information themselves,
> and that is what I tell every driver author to do who complains
> of a lack of a "bus_to_virt()" type thing, it's just lazy
> programming.

Once I worked around not having a "bus_to_virt()" type thing I was happier
with the resulting code. I completely agree.

JE


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