Subject: [PATCHv2 01/14] common: dma-mapping: introduce alloc_attrs and free_attrs methods

From: [email-masked] (Sergei Shtylyov)
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:29:07 +0400

Hello.

On 27-03-2012 17:42, Marek Szyprowski wrote:

> Introduce new generic alloc and free methods with attributes argument.

    The method names don't match the ones in the subject.

> Existing alloc_coherent and free_coherent can be implemented on top of the
> new calls with NULL attributes argument. Later also dma_alloc_non_coherent
> can be implemented using DMA_ATTR_NONCOHERENT attribute as well as
> dma_alloc_writecombine with separate DMA_ATTR_WRITECOMBINE attribute.

> This way the drivers will get more generic, platform independent way of
> allocating dma buffers with specific parameters.

> Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <[email-masked]>
> Acked-by: Kyungmin Park <[email-masked]>
> Reviewed-by: David Gibson <[email-masked]>
> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email-masked]>

WBR, Sergei