How to replace bus_to_virt()?

Hi all,

is there a *direct* future-proof replacement for bus_to_virt()?

It appears there are already architectures which do not define a bus_to_virt() funtion or macro. If there isn't a direct replacement, is there at least a way to detect at compile time whether bus_to_virt() exists?

I am asking because the sbp2 driver uses bus_to_virt() if CONFIG_IEEE1394_SBP2_PHYS_DMA=y. I would like to replace this option by an automatic detection when the respective code in sbp2 is actually required.

The current implementation is this: Sbp2 uses bus_to_virt() to map from 1394 bus addresses (which are currently identical to local host bus addresses) to virtual addresses. These addresses are supplied by SBP-2 target devices and point to *arbitrary* locations within buffers. These buffers are supplied by the SCSI subsystem/ block IO subsystem. That is, sbp2 has no influence on the location of the buffers, nor has it influence on the location of the chunk of data which an SBP-2 target is reading or writing at a particular moment. But thanks to bus_to_virt(), sbp2 does not need to know which SCSI command buffer (and to which scatter/gather element in the buffer) a particular data transfer belongs to.

From what I found out so far, I am afraid I have to implement a totally different address mapping scheme for the cases where physical DMA is not available; i.e. a scheme that enables sbp2 to look up the s/g element to which a transfer is directed, based on the 1394 bus address of the transfer.
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