On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 11:39:29AM +0400, malc wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Aug 2011, David Gibson wrote:
>
> > hw/dma.c does not contain code generally relevant to drivers accessing
> > system memory. In particular, it has no connection to dma.h, which does
> > have headers pertaining to the generally useful dma functions in
> > dma-helpers.c. Rather, it is code specific to emulating the legacy
> > ISA-style DMA controllers found on some platforms.
> >
> > To address this misleading naming, this function renames hw/dma.c to
> > hw/isa-dma.c, and renames exported functions within it as s/DMA/isa_dma/.
> > Makefiles and configure script are updated accordingly.
> >
>
> It has been done before btw:
> http://repo.or.cz/w/qemu/malc.git/shortlog/refs/heads/redma1
> http://repo.or.cz/w/qemu/malc.git/shortlog/refs/heads/redma
>
> With a slightly more consistent naming (i8257_ instead of isa_dma_)
> Not that i object to this.
Ok, so, was there a reason that patch didn't go in at the time?
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