On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, David Gibson wrote:

> 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?
> 

I don't remember, maybe Herve does.

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