Re: [PATCH 01/22] pci-dma-compat: Add pci_zalloc_consistent helper

From: Joe Perches
Date: Mon Jun 23 2014 - 10:03:40 EST


On Mon, 2014-06-23 at 15:53 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 23 June 2014 06:41:29 Joe Perches wrote:
> > Add this helper for consistency with pci_zalloc_coherent
> > and the ability to remove unnecessary memset(,0,) uses.

> Shouldn't these drivers just use the normal dma-mapping API now?

Maybe. I wouldn't mind.

They do seem to have a trivial bit of unnecessary overhead for

hwdev == NULL ? NULL : &hwdev->dev


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/