Re: bus_get_dma_tag now necessary for drivers using bus_dma

In message <20060905173334.GH9421_at_funkthat.com>, John-Mark Gurney writes:

>This means that for each call to bus_dma_tag_create, instead of passing
>a NULL pointer, you should call bus_get_dma_tag(yourdev) and use that
>as the parent tag.  I committed some example code to various drivers,
>such as ahc, ata, em, and ohci.

If there are never any exeptions to this requirement, why not
pass "yourdev" and have the magic hidden, rather than add 17
ritual characters to the API ?

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