On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 03:18:21PM +0200, Pantelis Antoniou wrote: > > Hi > > Can someone tell what is the deal with these functions? > > consistent_alloc et. al. are very useful to me now that I'm > cleaning up my QMC driver. But they are exported. > > Is there any reason why they are not exported for use by > modules?
They are exported in the development trees I use, linuxppc_2_4_devel and linuxppc-2.5. > Also they appear to be tied to the PCI bus, a reduntant > dependancy IMHO. How so? consistent_alloc/consistent_free are independent of pci bus. Use those. pci_* are, by definition, pci-specific and only exported on PCI-based systems. Regards, -- Matt Porter porter at cox.net This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot. ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
