[PATCH v5 0/3] OMAP2/3: DMA: FIFO drain errata fixes

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Tue Dec 7 14:45:19 EST 2010


On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 02:29:02PM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Considering below..
> 
> * Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi at nokia.com> [101021 02:56]:
> > Sorry, I did missed this mail...
> > 
> > On Saturday 09 October 2010 01:17:46 ext Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > 
> > > Guys, as we're so late into getting 2.6.36 tagged, I'm thinking about just
> > > queueing these for 2.6.37 for the following reasons:
> > > 
> > > - The 24xx patch is a fix for commit c12abc0 that's was merged over a
> > >   year ago. We've lived with it for over a year now. What difference does
> > >   extra few more months make if we have it in 2.6.37 instead of 2.6.36?
> > > 
> > > - The second 34xx fix seems to happen only when disabling DMA on the fly.
> > >   Again, we've had support for 34xx in the mainline kernel for a few
> > >   years, and we're not seeing unrecoverable issues with MMC or USB or
> > >   any other code calling omap_dma_stop().
> > > 
> > > Sure these fix major issues with the DMA, but are these really critical
> > > for 2.6.36?
> > > 
> > > So if you really want me to argue for merging these into 2.6.36, please let
> > > me know some oops causing cases or data corruption that happens without
> > > these patches.
> > 
> > Well 2.6.36 is released.
> > I still would like to see this to be part of the 2.6.36.1 release. We can 
> > reproduce the DMA error in 2.6.36 with audio.
> > 
> > Tony: can you make sure it is going to part of 2.6.36.1?
> 
> ..are you interested in these two patches for stable kernels?
> 
> The two patches in question are the following mainline commits:
> 
> 3e57f1626b5febe5cc99aa6870377deef3ae03cc
> 0e4905c0199d683497833be60a428c784d7575b8

Now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h



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