Re: sparc scsi esp depends on pci & hangs on boot

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:24:10PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> Sparc did not do this, the person coding up the new DMA API
> decided it was a good idea to implement the generic version
> this way. :-)
> 
> I think it's rediculious that I have to implement the whole
> new DMA API abstraction thing just to get rid of this PCI
> dependency.
> 
> Why don't we put the enum dma_direction somewhere else?  Some
> linux/foo.h header that doesn't require asm/dma*.h

Putting it into linux/dma-mapping.h is fine with me, but I expect to
see more users of the dma-mapping API soon..